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أَوَى to give shelter in Arabic

أَوَى is how you say “to give shelter” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَقَدْ أَوَيْتُمْ الصُّبَاةَ،

And indeed you sheltered the young people.

أَوَيْتُمْ you gave shelter

A past verb carrying its 'you (plural)' subject in the -tum ending — the suffix itself names the doers. So the whole 'you all gave shelter' sits in one word, no separate pronoun needed.

From Warning Before the Battle of Badr

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لَا يَأْوُونَ إِلَى أَهْلٍ وَلَا مَالٍ،

They do not take refuge in people or in wealth.

يَأْوُونَ they take refuge

A present-tense verb with the plural 'they' ending built in, meaning 'they take refuge'; the subject is the group just discussed. Negated by the 'not' before it, it states a general practice they avoid. The 'they' rides in the verb's ending.

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