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تَمْلِكْ to control in Arabic

تَمْلِكْ is how you say “to control” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَإِنَّكَ إِذَا تَكَلَّمْتَ بِالْكَلِمَةِ مَلَكَتْكَ وَلَمْ تَمْلِكْهَا

For indeed, when you speak a word, it possesses you and you do not possess it.

تَمْلِكْهَا you possess it

This present-tense verb has had its ending cut short because the preceding negation particle demands that shortened mood and flips the sense to a flat past 'did not'. A feminine 'it' object hangs off the end, pointing back to the word that was spoken.

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