أقام hold in Arabic
أقام is how you say “hold” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
لَو تَخَيَّلت قرب الأحباب لأقمت المأتم على بعْدك
If you imagined the closeness of loved ones, you would hold a funeral for your distance.
لَأَقَمْتِ you would hold
The 'la-' answering the 'law' counterfactual, prefixed to a past-tense (form IV) verb 'set up / held' with the '-ti' (you) ending — 'you would have held'. The 'la-' marks the apodosis of the unreal condition.
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More example sentences
كَمَا قَالَ تَعَالَى ﴿قُلْ لِعِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا يُقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةَ﴾،
as He, Exalted be He, said: 'Say to My servants who have believed to establish prayer',
يُقِيمُوا to establish
This present-tense verb has lost its usual final 'n' ending and dropped into a shortened mood. The trigger is that it answers the command 'Say': it functions as the result of the order, 'so that they establish'. Arabic uses this clipped verb shape to show one action hinges on another rather than standing on its own.