Arabic vocabulary
How to say “guiding” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
وانبسط أمله وَقَوي طمعه وَسَار إِلَى ربه وحادى الرَّجَاء يَحْدُو ركاب سيره،
His hope expanded, his ambition strengthened, and he journeyed to his Lord, with hope guiding the path of his journey.
يَحْدُو — guiding. A present-tense verb 'drives on (singing)', subject 'it' (hope) inside, opening a descriptive clause beside the last. It pictures hope continually spurring the travel onward.
From: Reflecting on God's Names →والرجاء يَحْدُو بالمطى
Hope urged the camels onward.
يَحْدُو — it urged. A present-tense verb 'drives on (singing, as a camel-driver)', subject 'it' (hope) inside, weak final root, the predicate-clause. Hope spurs the mounts forward.
From: Stages of the Seeker →فَنَزَلَ يَحْدُو بِالْقَوْمِ يَقُولُ
Then he came down among the people and began to chant, saying:
يَحْدُو — began to chant. A present-tense verb for a single subject, the doer in the prefix, describing the chanting. Set against the surrounding past narration, its present shape paints the chanting as an ongoing, drawn-out action that ran alongside the descent, a live background scene rather than a single finished act.
From: The Martyr's Reward →OpenArabic teaches words like يَحْدُو through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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