Arabic vocabulary

شَهْوَةُlust in Arabic

شَهْوَةُ is how you say “lust” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

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.
From: Patience and the Human Self →

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