Arabic vocabulary
شَوْقlonging in Arabic
شَوْق is how you say “longing” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
Example sentences
هُوَ الشوق مدلولا على مقتل الفنا
It is longing, guided to the death of annihilation.
الشَّوْقُ — longing. The predicate naming what love is, nominative ('-u'), definite — 'yearning'. Love defined as longing.
From: The Path to God's Love →والشوق يَسُوقهَا
Longing drove them.
وَالشَّوْقُ — and longing. 'And' plus 'longing', the topic, nominative, definite — yearning, another force. The 'al-' marks it as that faculty.
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