شَهْوَةُ lust in Arabic
شَهْوَةُ is how you say “lust” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَقِيلَ الصَّبْرُ ثَبَاتٌ بَاعِثٌ الْعَقْلِ وَالدِّينِ فِي مُقَابَلَةِ بَاعِثِ الْهَوَى وَالشَّهْوَةِ
It is said that patience is the steadiness that serves as the driving force of reason and religion in opposing the impulses of desire and lust.
وَالشَّهْوَةُ and the lust
Here wa- pairs 'lust' with 'desire' as a matched twosome, both jointly owned by the rival 'driving force'. This is the wa- of pairing, binding the two appetites into one 'desire-and-lust' unit. The noun keeps the genitive of an owner term like its partner.
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