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مُشْتَاق longing in Arabic

مُشْتَاق is how you say “longing” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَمَا أَنْت بالمشتاق إِن قلت بَيْننَا

You are not longing if you say there is distance between us,

بِالْمُشْتَاقِ with the longing

'Bi-' fused with an active participle 'the yearning one' — but here the 'bi-' is the EXTRA emphatic 'bi-' added to the predicate after the negating 'ma'. Arabic often puts a 'bi-' on the predicate of such a negation to drive the denial home; it does not translate as 'with'. So: 'you are by no means one who longs'.

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