Arabic vocabulary
How to say “grieve” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
وَقَوله النَّحْل وَلَا تحزن عَلَيْهِم وَلَا تَكُ فِي ضيق مِمَّا يمكرون
And His saying in An-Nahl: 'Do not grieve over them and do not be in distress from what they plot.'
تَحْزَنْ — you grieve. Command-form verb to one person, 'grieve', negated into 'do not grieve'. The singular 'you' is built in; the prohibition gives it the shortened command ending.
From: Patience in Hard Times →وَقَوله التَّوْبَة إِذْ يَقُول لصَاحبه لَا تحزن إِن الله مَعنا
And His saying in At-Tawbah when he said to his companion, 'Do not grieve, indeed God is with us.'
تَحْزَنْ — you grieve. Command-form verb to one person, 'grieve', negated into 'do not grieve'. The singular 'you' is built in and the prohibition gives the shortened command ending.
From: Patience in Hard Times →وَفَتَرَ الْوَحْيُ، فَتْرَةً حَتَّى حَزِنَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
Then the revelation paused for a time, until the Messenger of God became sorrowful; may God send blessings upon him and grant him peace.
حَزِنَ — became sorrowful. A past verb with 'he' inside it, opening the clause that 'until' introduced. It states the result the pause reached, the Prophet's grief; Arabic keeps the verb ahead of the named subject, so the verb stands complete before 'the Messenger' is given.
From: The Night of Revelation and Consolation →OpenArabic teaches words like حَزِنَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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