Arabic vocabulary
ٱمْتَنَعَتْrefused in Arabic
ٱمْتَنَعَتْ is how you say “refused” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَٱمْتَنَعَتْ مِّنِّي حَتَّى أَلَمَّتْ بِهَا سَنَةٌ مِنَ السِّنِينَ،
So she refused from me until a year of hardship befell her.
فَٱمْتَنَعَتْ — so she refused. A past-tense verb 'refused/held back' with a feminine 'she' ending, fronted by fa-. The fa- advances the narration, and the feminine ending agrees with the woman as the one who resisted.
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