Arabic vocabulary
أَسْتَحِيI am ashamed in Arabic
أَسْتَحِي is how you say “I am ashamed” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
قَالَ أَسْتَحِي أَنْ أَقُولَهَا
He said, "I am ashamed to say it."
أَسْتَحِي — I am ashamed. A present-tense verb whose initial vowel marks 'I' as the doer, expressing the speaker's feeling of shame. It is the main verb of the reply, and it leans on the 'that...' clause after it to say what he is ashamed to do.
From: A Night of Reckoning →
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