Arabic vocabulary
مَأْوَى is how you say “abode” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَقَالَ تَعَالَى إِنَّهُ مَنْ يُشْرِكْ بِاللَّهِ فَقَدْ حَرَّمَ اللهُ عَلَيْهِ الْجَنَّةَ وَمَأْوَاهُ النَّارُ
And He said: 'Indeed, whoever associates partners with Allah, Allah has forbidden Paradise for him, and his abode is the Fire.'
وَمَأْوَاهُ — and his abode. A fused 'and' plus a noun, 'and his abode', with a possessor on its end pointing back to the wrongdoer. It is the subject of a verbless statement whose predicate, the Fire, follows.
From: The Sin of Idolatry →OpenArabic teaches words like مَأْوَى through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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