تَمَاسَكَاheld on to each other

Example sentences

• وَتَمَاسَكَا، فَرُبَّمَا كَانَ شَيْطَانُ الْإِنْسِ أَقْوَى مِنْهُ،

  And they held on to each other, for perhaps the human devil was stronger than him.

  وَتَمَاسَكَا — and held on to each other. The wa- joins this to the previous action, and the verb itself is a form-VI past in the dual ('the two of them grappled with each other'). The form-VI pattern carries built-in mutual action, 'doing it to one another', and the dual ending marks exactly two doers. So one word says 'and they two locked together'.

  From: Choosing Good Companions →