Arabic vocabulary
تَحَوَّى is how you say “encompass” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
بصنعته استدار المصير وتحوى،
By His craftsmanship, the intestines coiled and folded.
تَحَوَّى — it encompassed. A past-tense verb with a built-in 'it' subject, continuing to describe the same thing from the previous clause. It reports a further completed action, the enclosing or folding, joined to the earlier coiling.
From: All Creation Praises Him →OpenArabic teaches words like تَحَوَّى through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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