Arabic vocabulary
تَحَنُّثُ is how you say “devotional seclusion” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَيَتَحَنَّثُ فِيهِ ـ قَالَ وَالْتَّحَنُّثُ التَّعَبُّدُ ـ
So he practices devotional seclusion in it, and he said that devotional seclusion is devout worship.
وَالْتَّحَنُّثُ — and the devotional seclusion. The wa- opens the explanatory aside, and the noun carries the 'the' marker making it the known term being defined. The 'the' sound here assimilates into the following consonant, a regular pronunciation effect, but its grammatical job is still definiteness.
From: The Night of Revelation and Consolation →OpenArabic teaches words like تَحَنُّثُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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