Arabic vocabulary
إِمْسَاكholding back
How to say “holding back” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَقُوَّةَ الإِحْجَامِ إِمْسَاكًا عَمَّا يَضُرُّهُ
And the power of refraining is holding back from what harms him.
إِمْسَاكًا — holding back. An action-noun ('holding back') in the accusative, naming the manner/state into which the second power is put. Its accusative ending marks it as the assigned state, parallel to 'directed' earlier.
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