Arabic vocabulary
مُحِبٌّ is how you say “lover” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
والمحبة نشيد لَا يطرب عَلَيْهِ إِلَّا محب مغرم
Love is a hymn enjoyed only by an infatuated lover.
مُحِبٌّ — lover. The subject of 'is stirred', restored by the exception, indefinite nominative — 'a lover'. An active participle, the one who loves.
From: Love and Devotion to God →فَلهَذَا قل وارده الْمُحب يهرب إِلَى الْعُزْلَة وَالْخلْوَة بمحبوبه
For this reason, few come to it. The lover flees to solitude and seclusion with his beloved.
الْمُحِبُّ — the lover. A new topic, nominative, definite — 'the lover [is one who]…'. It opens a fresh statement about him.
From: Love and Devotion to God →وتعرّف رب الْعِزَّة إِلَى المحبين بأسمائه وَصِفَاته
And the Lord of Majesty introduced Himself to the lovers through His names and attributes.
الْمُحِبِّينَ — the lovers. A sound masculine plural 'those who love' in the genitive ('-ina') after 'to', definite. The devoted, to whom God reveals Himself.
From: Overcoming Desire →إِذا سَافر الْمُحب للقاء محبوبه ركبت جُنُوده مَعَه
When the lover travels to meet his beloved, his armies accompany him.
المُحِبُّ — the lover. An active participle 'the one who loves', the subject of 'travels', nominative ('-u'), definite. The traveler.
From: Stages of the Seeker →لَيْسَ لِأَحَدٍ إِلَّا لَهُ مُحِبٌّ وَمُبْغِضٌ
There is no one except that for him is an admirer and a hater.
مُحِبٌّ — an admirer. An active doer-noun ('one who loves') standing as the thing that exists for the person, marked by the indefinite subject-case ending. Such participle nouns name the agent of an action, here filling the slot English gives to 'an admirer'.
From: Silence and Supplication →OpenArabic teaches words like مُحِبٌّ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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