Arabic vocabulary
مُحَرَّمَةforbidden in Arabic
مُحَرَّمَة is how you say “forbidden” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَلَا يَصْبِرُ عَنِ نَظْرَةٍ مُحَرَّمَةٍ
and he cannot refrain from a forbidden glance.
مُحَرَّمَةٍ — forbidden. A passive-participle adjective ('forbidden'), describing the glance as something that has had the action of prohibiting done to it. It agrees with 'glance' in being feminine, indefinite, and in the genitive, which ties the description firmly to that noun. Arabic builds such 'made-X' adjectives off the verb itself.
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