Arabic vocabulary
قرب is how you say “nearness” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
لَو تَخَيَّلت قرب الأحباب لأقمت المأتم على بعْدك
If you imagined the closeness of loved ones, you would hold a funeral for your distance.
قُرْبَ — the closeness. 'Nearness', the object of 'imagined', accusative ('-a'), and first term of an 'of' pairing — 'the nearness of the loved ones'. It owns the noun that follows.
From: Night Prayer and Nearness to God →OpenArabic teaches words like قرب through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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