Arabic vocabulary
يَحْتَوِيcontain in Arabic
يَحْتَوِي is how you say “contain” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَإِذَا بِهِ يَحْتَوِي عَلَى سِتَّةِ آلاَفٍ مُجَلَّدٍ،
Then it contained six thousand volumes.
يَحْتَوِي — contains. A present-tense verb meaning 'contains', with its 'it' subject built in. Inside this past narrative the present tense paints the state found at that moment, what the register held when examined. The form names a static, ongoing condition rather than an event.
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