يَتَحَاشَىrefrain from

Example sentences

• وَلا يَتَحَاشَى مِنْ غَيْبَةٍ أَوْ سَمَاعِهَا،

  and he does not avoid backbiting or listening to it.

  يَتَحَاشَى — refrain from. A present-tense 'he' verb with its subject in the prefix, carrying a 'keeps clear of' sense. Under the negation, it states that the man does NOT shun something, and it leans on the preposition that follows to name what he fails to avoid.

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