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أَبى refused in Arabic

أَبى is how you say “refused” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

أرسل إليه ملك من ملوك اليونان بقناطير من الذهب حتى يسير إليه فأبى،

A king from among the kings of Greece sent to him loads of gold so that he would come to him, but he refused.

فَأَبى so he refused

The 'fa-' here marks the turn in the story, and the verb 'refused' carries its own subject 'he', referring to Hippocrates. The connector signals the result that frustrates the king's intent.

From Moderation in Medicine

The English is machine-translated.

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