Arabic vocabulary
How to say “contained” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
اعلم أن كتاب الحلية قد حوى من الأحاديث والحكايات جملة حسنة
Know that the book 'Adornment' contains a good collection of hadiths and stories.
حَوَى — contained. A past-tense verb, 'it contained / gathered', with its subject 'it' built in. The emphasis word before it frames the containing as an established fact about the book.
From: Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives →OpenArabic teaches words like حَوَى through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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