Arabic vocabulary
حَنْظَلًاbitterness in Arabic
حَنْظَلًا is how you say “bitterness” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
لِأَنَّ حَلَاوَةَ اللَّذَّاتِ اِسْتَحَالَتْ حَنْظَلًا؛
Because the sweetness of pleasures has turned into bitterness.
حَنْظَلًا — bitterness. An indefinite noun naming what the sweetness changed INTO (a bitter colocynth, used here for bitterness), in the accusative because the change-verb marks its result that way. The accusative is the signal that it is the end-state of the transformation.
From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →
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