Arabic vocabulary
How to say “nearness” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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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