Arabic vocabulary
أَحْتَقِرُI despise in Arabic
أَحْتَقِرُ is how you say “I despise” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَأَحْتَقِرُ هِمَمَ الْطُّلَّابِ وَلِلَّهِ الْحَمْدُ
I hold the students' ambitions in contempt, and praise be to God.
وَأَحْتَقِرُ — and I despise. The leading wa- links this to the previous statement, and the verb is present tense with an 'I' subject built into its prefix. It reports the speaker's ongoing attitude of holding-in-contempt, parallel to the becoming he just described. The prefix alone carries the speaker, no separate 'I' needed.
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