Arabic vocabulary

هَوِيَdesire in Arabic

هَوِيَ is how you say “desire” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

وهي تطلب منه في كل وقت ما تهواه، وتزين له المعاصي، وتصعب عليه الطاعات
It seeks from him at all times what it desires, embellishes sins for him, and makes acts of worship difficult for him.
تَهْوَاهُ — it desires it. A present-tense verb meaning 'it craves', with 'it' built in and -hu 'it' attached as object, 'craves it'. The clause defines 'what', and the object pronoun loops back to the same 'what'; one word holds subject and object.
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