Arabic vocabulary

القَلْبheart in Arabic

القَلْب is how you say “heart” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

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.
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