Arabic vocabulary
تَعَوَّذَ is how you say “sought refuge” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
يَا أَخِي اِعْلَمْ أَنَّ مَنْ تَعَوَّذَ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ
My brother, know that whoever sought refuge in God from the accursed Satan.
تَعَوَّذَ — sought refuge. A past-tense verb whose form (a reflexive-seeking pattern) carries the sense 'sought protection for oneself'. Its 'he' subject is the general 'whoever' just before it, so the action is attributed to any such person.
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