حَيَاء modesty in Arabic
حَيَاء is how you say “modesty” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
انبَعَثَ من العَبْد قُوَّة الْحيَاء
A sense of modesty arises from the servant.
الحَيَاءِ of modesty
The owner completing 'the strength of modesty', genitive, definite — shyness before God. The capacity that this disclosure awakens.
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فتبدو سريرته على وجهه نورًا وإشراقًا وحياء
His inner state will appear on his face as light, brightness, and modesty.
وَحَيَاءً and modesty
wa- (and) on a third indefinite noun in the object-style ending, completing the series 'light, brightness, and modesty' as further forms the inner state takes. Its ending keeps it in step with the others.
فمن كانت سريرته صالحة كان عمله صالحًا فتبدو سريرته على وجهه نورًا وإشراقًا وحياء ومن كانت سريرته
So whoever has a righteous inner state, his actions will be righteous; then his inner state appears on his face as light, radiance, and modesty, and whoever's inner state...
وَحَيَاءً and modesty
The wa- closes the list with its final member, again in the accusative-of-manner matching the others. Arabic marks every item of such a series with the same case, so this last 'and...' keeps the pattern intact and rounds off the set of guises.