يَقْهَرُoverwhelms

Example sentences

• وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَقْهَرُ دَاءُهُ قُوَّتَهُ وَيَكُونُ السُّلطانُ لِلْداءِ

  And among them are those whose illness overwhelms their strength, and the dominion is for the disease.

  يَقْهَرُ — overwhelms. A present-tense verb 'overpowers', with its subject following. Word order here matters: the noun right after is the doer and the next noun the thing overpowered, which is how Arabic tells who beats whom when both are present.

  From: Staying Firm in Faith →