Arabic vocabulary
قَلَق is how you say “anxiety” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
لحظة أثمرت حرارة القلق ألف سنة،
A moment bore the heat of anxiety for a thousand years.
القَلَقِ — of anxiety. al- = 'the'; qalaq means 'anxiety, restlessness' — the 'of…' word: 'of anxiety'.
From: Adam's Descent →قَالَ الصدّيق وَقد اشْتَدَّ بِهِ القلق
The Truthful One, overwhelmed with anxiety, said.
الْقَلَقُ — anxiety. The subject of 'intensified', nominative ('-u'), after its verb — his worry. What had grown sharp in Abu Bakr.
From: The Night of the Migration →فَزَالَ القلق وطاب عَيْش الماكث
So anxiety vanished, and the resident's life became pleasant.
الْقَلَقُ — the anxiety. The '-u' ending marks this as the subject that vanished, placed after its verb in the normal order. The noun is the restless churn of worry, now said to be gone.
From: The Prophet's Refuge in the Cave →OpenArabic teaches words like قَلَق through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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