Arabic vocabulary
ٱمْتَنَعَتْrefused
How to say “refused” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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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