Arabic vocabulary
تَسْوِيفِdelaying
How to say “delaying” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَالْأَمَانِيِ الْبَاطِلَةِ وَالْغُرُورِ وَالتَسْوِيفِ بِالْعَمَلِ
False hopes, self-deception, and delaying action.
وَالتَسْوِيفِ — and the delaying. Two pieces: wa- ('and') continues the list, and the noun is the verbal noun for 'delaying', the naming of an act. It heads a possessive pairing with the next word, so it links to 'action' to mean 'the delaying of action'.
From: Three States of the Heart →
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