Arabic vocabulary
How to say “of desire” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي سَاقَ سَحَّابَ الشَّهْوَةِ بِرَعْدِ هَوَاءِ مَرْجُوزٍ،
Praise be to God who drove the clouds of desire with the thunder of a banished wind.
الشَّهْوَةِ — of desire. The owning half of 'clouds of desire'. It is definite ('al-') and stands in the genitive as the completing noun of that 'of' pairing, naming what the metaphorical clouds are made of.
From: On Birth and Its Timing →OpenArabic teaches words like الشَّهْوَةِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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