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قَاوَمَ resisted in Arabic

قَاوَمَ is how you say “resisted” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَقَاوَمَ الْهَوَى

And it resisted desires.

وَقَاوَمَ and it resisted

'wa-' = 'and'; past-tense verb, subject 'it' built in.

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More example sentences

فقاوم الشهوة مقاومة الفطن لا الغبي،

He resisted desire with the wisdom of the intelligent, not the ignorant.

فَقَاوَمَ so he resisted

The prefix fa- opens the consequence, and the past-tense verb carries its doer 'he' inside. The verb pattern is the kind built for mutual struggle, giving 'he resisted / fought against', so it reaches its object directly without a separate word for 'against'.

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