Arabic vocabulary
How to say “guarded” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
وَيَنْبَغِي لِلْعَاقِلِ أَنْ يَتَمَرَّنَ عَلَى دَفْعِ الْهَوَى الْمَأْمُونِ الْعَوَاقِبِ
The rational person should train himself to resist even desire whose consequences are safe.
الْمَأْمُونِ — foreseeable. An adjective on 'desire', matching it for 'the' and genitive; it means 'trusted-as-safe' — desire whose downside is secure. It heads a pairing with the next word.
From: The Discipline of Foresight →OpenArabic teaches words like مَأْمُون through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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