Arabic vocabulary
أَقْسَرَto compel, to subdue in Arabic
أَقْسَرَ is how you say “to compel, to subdue” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
ما تأتي عبرة مثل أن أباك وأمك ماتا،
No lesson strikes home like the fact that your father and your mother have died.
قسر — subdued. Past-tense verb, 'he subdued/compelled', read from its root as an act of overpowering. The past form states a completed action; its doer is God, understood from context.
From: God's Sovereignty in Creation →
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