Arabic vocabulary
أَهَابَgrow afraid in Arabic
أَهَابَ is how you say “grow afraid” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَجَعَلْتُ أَهَابَهُ،
So I grew afraid of him.
أَهَابَهُ — grow afraid of him. A verb of fearing carrying a single 'him' object on its end; it completes the 'began' verb before it, so the two read as 'I began to dread him'. The object pronoun is fused, where English keeps 'of him' separate.
From: Umar and the Prophet's Wives →
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