Arabic vocabulary
How to say “cure” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
ألم تر إلى المريض كيف يمتنع عن الطعام اللذيذ خوفًا من زيادة المرض، ويشرب الدواء المرّ رجاء للشفاء؟
Have you not seen how a sick person refrains from delicious food fearing an increase in illness, and drinks bitter medicine hoping for a cure?
لِلشِّفَاءِ — for a cure. Here 'li-' is fused on as 'for' to a noun, marking the goal of the hope: for a cure. The preposition governs the noun, whose 'the' marks recovery as the known aim.
From: Paradise Over Pleasure →OpenArabic teaches words like شفاء through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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