Arabic vocabulary
How to say “fleeting” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
وَسَائِر اللَّذَّات دون هَذِه اللَّذَّة مضمحلة فانية
And all pleasures other than this pleasure are fleeting and perishable.
مُضْمَحِلَّةٌ — fleeting. A participle 'vanishing / fading away', the predicate, indefinite nominative agreeing with 'all the rest' — 'are fading'. They dwindle to nothing.
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