خَوْف fear in Arabic
خَوْف is how you say “fear” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَالْخَوْف يجمعها على الطَّرِيق
Fear kept them on the road.
وَالْخَوْفُ and fear
'And' plus 'fear', the topic, nominative, definite — dread, another force. The 'al-' marks it as that faculty.
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More example sentences
فاستوحش الصّديق من خوف الْحَوَادِث
Al-Siddiq felt uneasy due to fear of what might happen.
خَوْفِ fear of
Governed by the preposition, this noun also heads an 'of' pairing, 'fear of the happenings'. Placed bare before its partner, it leans on that partner for its meaning and gives up any 'the' of its own.
فَنزلت السكينَة فارتفع خوف الْحَادِث
Then tranquility descended, and fear of the event was lifted.
خَوْفُ fear of
The same 'fear of' phrase as earlier, but here it is the subject that rose away, so it takes the '-u' ending instead of the genitive it had after 'from'. Watching the ending shift with the word's job is central to reading Arabic.
وقال ﴿تَتَجَافَى جُنُوبُهُمْ عَنِ الْمَضَاجِعِ يَدْعُونَ رَبَّهُمْ خَوْفًا وَطَمَعًا وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَاهُمْ يُنْفِقُونَ﴾
And He said, 'Their sides shun their beds as they call upon their Lord in fear and hope, and from what We have provided them, they spend.'
خَوْفًا in fear
This noun lacks 'the' and ends in the indefinite mark and the accusative, meaning 'out of fear'. Arabic uses this bare accusative to give the reason or motive of an action, where English would say 'in fear' or 'because of fear'.
وأما عملك فغير صالح، وأما تلاوتك فثقيلة عرية عن الخشية والحزن والخوف
As for your deeds, they are not righteous, and your recitation is heavy, devoid of fear, sorrow, and apprehension.
وَالْخَوْفِ and apprehension
The conjunction adds a final coordinated genitive, fear, definite and genitive, closing the list. The shared genitive endings show all three qualities hang off the single 'devoid of' preposition.
وَأَمَّا الْعِبَادَةُ وَمَا يُنَاسِبُهَا مِنَ التَّوَكُّلِ وَالْخَوْفِ وَنَحْوِ ذَلِكَ
As for worship and what suits it, such as trust in God, fear of God, and the like.
وَالْخَوْفِ and fear of God
The wa- adds a second example to the partitive list, and the noun stays in the genitive under the same governing 'from'. It names fear as another accompaniment of worship, parallel to the previous item, both belonging to the same listed class.