Arabic vocabulary
شَوْقlonging
How to say “longing” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
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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