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حَوْلَ around in Arabic

حَوْلَ is how you say “around” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

اجعل لكل يوم وقفة محاسبة قصيرة ما الذي زادني قربًا من ربي اليوم، وما الذي زاد الغفلة سمكًا حول قلبي

Make a brief accounting each day: What brought me closer to my Lord today, and what increased the thickness of heedlessness around my heart.

حَوْلَ around

'hawl' = 'around'; first half of an 'of' phrase: 'around...'.

From Small Daily Habits

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ضع نيةً محددة كإبرة بوصلتك، ثم اجعل أعمالك الصغيرة تدور حولها وضوء حاضر، نظرة مصروفة عن فضول، كلمة مكفوفة عن إيذاء، ابتسامة تُثبِّت قلبًا واهيًا

Set a specific intention as your compass needle, then let your small deeds revolve around it: a mindful ablution, a glance turned away from curiosity, a restrained word from harm, a smile that steadies a weak heart.

حَوْلَهَا around it

'hawl' = 'around'; '-ha' = 'it', so 'around it'.

From On Sincerity

كَالرَّاعِي يَرْعَى حَوْلَ الْحِمَى يُوشِكُ أَنْ يَرْتَعَ فِيهِ،

Like the shepherd who grazes around a sanctuary, nearly falling into it.

حَوْلَ around

This 'around', an adverb fixed in the accusative, itself governs the following noun in the genitive. It places the grazing in the perilous margin, right around the protected land.

From The Lawful, the Forbidden, and the Grey

كَالرَّاعِي يرْعَى حول الْحمى يُوشك أَن يَقع فِيهِ

Like a shepherd grazing around a sanctuary, he is likely to fall into it.

حَوْلَ around

A noun used as a position-word meaning 'around', which sets the following noun into the owned, possessed form, building an 'around the X' phrase. It pins the grazing to a location relative to the protected ground.

From Patience in Hard Times

يَطُوفُ بِهَا حَوْلَ الْبَيْتِ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ

He walks around the house with her, saying

حَوْلِ around

This word, 'around / surrounding', acts as a place-marker and opens an owner-and-owned pairing with the house-word after it, 'around the house'. As the first half it stays bare and leans on the owner ahead. Its ending marks it as setting the spatial frame of the circling.

From Honoring Parents

وَكَانَ مَنْ حَوْلَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَدْ اِسْتَقَامَ لَهُ،

And those around the Messenger of God had already stood by him,

حَوْلَ around

A place-noun 'around / in the circle of' used like a preposition; it takes the object/adverb ending and heads a possessive pair, owning 'the Messenger' as the centre it surrounds.

From Umar and the Prophet's Wives

قَالَ فَأَجْلَسَنِي فِي قَاعٍ حَوْلَهُ حِجَارَةٌ

He said, then he seated me in a hollow surrounded by stones.

حَوْلَهُ around it

A location word, 'around it', carrying an 'it' ending that reaches back to the hollow. It opens a small descriptive clause about the hollow's surroundings, the suffix tracking which thing is encircled.

From Paradise for the Sincere

وَلَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ الْعَلِيِّ الْعَظِيمِ

There is no power and no strength except by God, the Most High, the Most Great.

حَوْلَ power

The noun 'power/might', the thing wholly denied by the preceding absolute 'no', so it stands in the bare object-style ending that this kind of total negation forces, with no 'the' and no double mark. It is the first half of the fixed phrase 'no power and no strength'.

From The Four Inner Guards

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