Arabic vocabulary

كَظِيمsuppressing in Arabic

كَظِيم is how you say “suppressing” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

وَمِنْه قَوْله تَعَالَى يُوسُف فَتَوَلّى عَنْهُم وَقَالَ يَا أسفي على يُوسُف وابيضت عَيناهُ من الْحزن فَهُوَ كظيم
And from this is His saying in Surah Yusuf: 'So he turned away from them and said, "Oh, my grief over Yusuf!" And his eyes turned white from sadness, for he was suppressing it.'
كَظِيمٌ — suppressing. An intensive adjective, 'choking back grief', the predicate of 'he was one suppressing it'. This pattern names a person filled with a quality; it describes him as holding his sorrow in, with no verb 'was'.
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