Arabic vocabulary
How to say “heart” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
وَأَشَارَ بِيَدِهِ إِلَى لِسَانه وَقَالَ تَدْمَع الْعين ويحزن الْقلب وَلَا نقُول إِلَّا مَا يرضى الرب
And he pointed with his hand to his tongue and said, 'The eye sheds tears, and the heart grieves, but we do not say except what pleases the Lord.'
القَلْبُ — the heart. Definite noun, 'the heart', masculine, the subject of the grieving verb, following it. The verb took masculine agreement to match this subject; the 'the' marks the known organ.
From: Patience in Hard Times →OpenArabic teaches words like القَلْب through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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