Arabic vocabulary
عَفْوَforgiveness in Arabic
عَفْوَ is how you say “forgiveness” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
نَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ العَفْوَ وَالسِّتْرَ
We ask God for forgiveness and to conceal our faults.
العَفْوَ — forgiveness. This noun carries 'al-' (the) and is a second object of 'we ask', the thing being requested, so it too takes the object-style (accusative) ending. The verb here takes two objects, the One asked and the thing asked for, and this is the latter, named definite.
From: Sincerity in Prophetic Knowledge →
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