Arabic vocabulary
شَفَقَةcompassionate in Arabic
شَفَقَة is how you say “compassionate” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وهو أشفق علينا من أنفسنا
And He is more compassionate toward us than we are to ourselves,
أَشْفَقُ — more compassionate. This is a comparative form, 'more compassionate', with 'more' folded into its pattern, and it is the comment on the pronoun 'he'. It heads a comparison completed later by 'than'; with no verb 'is' present, it simply stands beside the subject as its predicate.
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