Arabic vocabulary

أَرْوَحُI enliven in Arabic

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

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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