Arabic vocabulary
الْعَيْشُlife in Arabic
الْعَيْشُ is how you say “life” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَلَوْلَا ذَلِكَ مَا هَنَأَهُ الْعَيْشُ
And were it not for that, life would not be pleasant for him.
الْعَيْشُ — life. This noun is the delayed subject of the preceding verb: it is life that would (not) have been pleasant. Its al- makes it definite and the nominative ending marks it as the doer of the pleasantness. It trails its verb in the normal order.
From: On Foolishness and Wisdom →
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