Arabic vocabulary
How to say “desire” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فالمؤمن يزن الأمور بميزان العاقبة، ولا يغتر بحلاوة الشهوة العاجلة
The believer weighs matters with the scale of the outcome and is not deceived by the sweetness of immediate desire.
الشَّهْوَةِ — desire. The owning noun in the 'sweetness of desire' pair, its 'the' making the phrase definite. It names craving as what that sweetness belongs to.
From: Paradise Over Pleasure →OpenArabic teaches words like شهوة through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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