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استعصى

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Arabic

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Root
ع ص ي (ʕ ṣ y)
7 terms

Verb

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اِسْتَعْصَى (istaʕṣā) X (non-past يَسْتَعْصِي (yastaʕṣī), verbal noun اِسْتِعْصَاء (istiʕṣāʔ))

  1. to resist, to defy [with عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘someone/something’]
  2. to rebel, to revolt [with عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘against someone/something’]
  3. to be rebellious, to be recalcitrant
  4. to be difficult [with عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘for someone’]
  5. to be malignant, to be incurable (of a disease)
  6. to elude, to escape [with عَن (ʕan) ‘something’]
  7. to break down, to fail, to malfunction [with عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘on/for someone’]

Conjugation

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