Arabic vocabulary
أَمْسَكَrefrained
How to say “refrained” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
ولبسوا الثوب النظيف وشموا الطيب وأمسكوا عن الحركات،
They would wear clean clothes, smell perfume, and refrain from movements.
أَمْسَكُوا — they refrained. A past-tense verb with its plural subject 'they' built into the ending, so no separate pronoun is needed. The verb means to hold oneself back, continuing the run of habitual past actions.
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