يُمْسِكto restrain

Example sentences

• فإن استطاع أن لا يغضب فهو الكامل، وإلا فليمسك لسانه ويده

  If he can avoid getting angry, he is complete; otherwise, let him restrain his tongue and his hand.

  فَلْيُمْسِكْ — let him restrain. The joined 'so' plus a command-form verb shaped by a 'let him' marker: then let him restrain. Arabic forms this third-person command by attaching the marker and clipping the verb's ending, where English uses 'let him'.

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