Arabic vocabulary

الهَوَىof desire in Arabic

الهَوَى is how you say “of desire” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

بَاعِثُ الدِّينِ بِالإِضَافَةِ إِلَى بَاعِثِ الهَوَى لَهُ ثَلَاثَةُ أَحْوَالٍ
The motive of religion, together with the motive of desire, has three states.
الهَوَى — of desire. A noun whose ending does not visibly change for case (one of the words with a weak final letter), here understood as genitive because it is the owner in 'motive of desire'. Even without a clear case mark, its position after the head noun tells you it completes that possessive pairing.
From: Three States of the Heart →

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