Arabic vocabulary
اسْتَغْنَى is how you say “be content” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فصل إِذا اسْتغنى النَّاس بالدنيا فاستغن أَنْت بِاللَّه
If people become content with the world, be content with God.
اسْتَغْنَى — become content. A Form X verb, the 'ista-' shape giving 'to find oneself rich, to do without need'. Its subject comes after it, as Arabic prefers, and the weak final root-letter shows as the long ending.
From: Contentment with What God Wills →OpenArabic teaches words like اسْتَغْنَى through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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