Arabic vocabulary
اِسْتَحِلَّbe desecrated
How to say “be desecrated” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
اَلْيَوْمُ يَوْمُ الْمَلْحَمَةِ، اَلْيَوْمَ تُسْتَحَلُّ الْكَعْبَةُ
Today is the day of the great battle; today the Kaaba will be desecrated.
تُسْتَحَلُّ — will be desecrated. This is the passive form of the verb: the Kaaba undergoes the action ('is made lawful / violated') rather than doing it. Arabic marks the passive not with a helper word like 'is' but by changing the vowels inside the verb, and its feminine shape agrees with 'the Kaaba'.
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