Arabic vocabulary
طَمُوحُambition in Arabic
طَمُوحُ is how you say “ambition” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَبَدْءُ الْهَوَى طَمُوحُ الْعَيْنِ
And the beginning of desire is the eye's ambition.
طَمُوحُ — ambition. A noun naming a reaching or yearning, here the predicate: the beginning of desire IS this. It heads a possessive pairing with 'the eye', so it reads 'the reaching of...'. So it pins the source of passion to the eye's overreaching gaze, where desire first stirs.
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