Arabic vocabulary
زُهْدٍ is how you say “asceticism” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
عَلَيْكَ بِالزُّهْدِ
You should embrace asceticism.
الزُّهْدِ — asceticism. Definite noun, 'asceticism', the object of the urging idiom 'take up asceticism'. The 'the' marks the known ethical concept of pious detachment; the preposition before it puts it in the owned form.
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