Arabic vocabulary
آيِس is how you say “despair” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَلِهَذَا كَانَ الله أَشد فَرحا بتوبة العَبْد من الفاقد لراحلته عَلَيْهَا طَعَامه وَشَرَابه فِي ارْض دوية ملهكة إِذا نَام آيسا مِنْهَا ثمَّ اسْتَيْقَظَ فَوَجَدَهَا
And for this reason, Allah is more delighted with the repentance of His servant than one who finds his lost mount, upon it his food and drink, in a barren, dangerous land after sleeping in despair of it, then waking to find it.
آيِسًا — in despair. This is an indefinite describing word in the accusative case, marking the state the man was in as he slept. Arabic uses this accusative to attach a circumstance to a verb, telling us 'he slept while in despair'.
From: Worship and Repentance →OpenArabic teaches words like آيِس through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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