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كَظِيم suppressing in Arabic

كَظِيم is how you say “suppressing” in Arabic.

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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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