Arabic vocabulary
غَفْلَةnaivety in Arabic
غَفْلَة is how you say “naivety” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فضحك القوم من غفلته
The people laughed at his naivety.
غَفْلَتِهِ — his naivety. Genitive by the preposition before it, with the attached -hu 'his' naming the possessor; so 'his heedlessness' is what they laughed at. The pronoun shows whose.
From: Bedouin Manners →
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