Arabic vocabulary
How to say “fear” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
ابدأ نهارك بمسحٍ داخلي سريع ما الذي يحركني الآن، خوف أم رجاء أم عادة عمياء
Start your day with a quick inner scan: what drives me now – fear, hope, or blind habit?
خَوْفٌ — fear. 'khawf' = 'fear'. No 'al-', so 'fear'.
From: On Sincerity →فَالإِلٰهُ هُوَ الَّذِي يُؤَلِّـّهُ الْقَلْبُ بِكَمالِ الْحُبِّ وَالتَّعْظِيمِ وَالإِجْلَالِ وَالإِكْرَامِ وَالْخَوْفِ وَالرَّجَاءِ وَنَحْوِ ذَلِكَ
God is the One whom the heart deifies with the perfection of love, exaltation, reverence, honor, fear, hope, and the like.
وَالْخَوْف — and fear. A connecting 'and' adding 'fear' to the list of qualities. It coordinates one more parallel genitive noun under the same 'perfection of...' head.
From: What Worship Really Means →OpenArabic teaches words like خَوْفٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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