Arabic vocabulary
تَحْوِي is how you say “contains” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
هِیَ الَّتِي تَحْوِي مَرْضَاةَ الرَّبِّ وَمَحَبَّتَهُ
It is that which contains the Lord's pleasure and His love.
تَحْوِي — it contains. A present-tense verb shaped for a feminine singular 'it' subject, meaning 'it contains'. The subject lives inside the verb form and points back to the feminine antecedent of the relative clause. It states what that thing does.
From: Trust and Piety →OpenArabic teaches words like تَحْوِي through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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