Arabic vocabulary
How to say “longing” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
تلقى قلبه فقد أَرْسلتهُ عجلا إِلَى لقائك والأشواق تقدمه
You will find his heart as he has sent it hurriedly to meet you, and longing precedes it.
وَالأَشْوَاقُ — and longing. 'And' plus a broken plural 'longings / yearnings', the topic of a circumstantial clause, nominative, definite — 'and the longings…'. The yearnings run ahead.
From: Stages of the Seeker →OpenArabic teaches words like أَشْوَاقٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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