Arabic vocabulary
How to say “helping” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
وسكوت هذا الرجل في مثل هذا المقام إِعانة على نفسه وذلك لا يحل،
And this man's silence in such a situation is aiding his own harm, which is not permissible.
إِعَانَةٌ — aiding. This noun is the predicate of the topic 'silence', telling what it amounts to, so it stands in the subject form to match. Its bare ending marks it indefinite, 'a helping'.
From: Trust in God →وهو إعانته على نفسه التي هي وديعة الله تعالى عنده وقد أُمر بحفظها
And it is his aiding against his self, which is the trust of Allah, Exalted is He, placed with him, and he has been commanded to preserve it.
إِعَانَتُهُ — his aiding. A verbal noun, the action 'aiding' frozen into a thing, with 'his' attached as possessor. The suffix shows whose aiding it is, and as a noun it can head a possessive chain, here owning what comes after.
From: Trust in God →OpenArabic teaches words like إِعَانَة through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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