أَبَىrefuse in Arabic

Example sentences

• دعِي إِلَى الْإِسْلَام فَمَا تلعثم وَلَا أَبى

  He was called to Islam and he did not hesitate nor refuse.

  أَبَى — refuse. A past-tense verb 'refused / balked', subject 'he' inside, weak final root — 'nor did he refuse'. He neither faltered nor declined.

  From: Abu Bakr: First Champion of Islam →

• فَتَعَرَّضَتْ لَهُ اِمْرَأَةٌ وَكََلَّمَتْهُ فَأَبَى،

  Then a woman approached him and spoke to him, then he refused.

  فَأَبَى — then he refused. The fa- delivers the result that follows her speaking -- 'so he refused'. It frames this as the immediate upshot of the previous action rather than just the next item in a list, and the verb carries its own 'he' subject.

  From: Those Who Spoke in the Cradle →