Arabic vocabulary
أَرْوَحُI enliven
How to say “I enliven” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
قَالَ أَبُو فِرَاسٍ أَرْوَحُ الْقَلْبَ بِبَعْضِ الْهَزْلِ تَجَاهُلًا مِنِّي بِغَيْرِ جَهْلٍ،
Abu Firas said: I enliven the heart with some levity, feigning indifference, but not out of ignorance.
أَرْوَحُ — I enliven. A present-tense verb whose 'I' subject is built into its shape, so the speaker is named inside the verb. It opens the quoted line by stating the speaker's own habitual action, with no separate 'I' word needed.
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