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عَفْوَ forgiveness in Arabic

عَفْوَ is how you say “forgiveness” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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.

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