Arabic vocabulary
How to say “of desire” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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 →OpenArabic teaches words like الهَوَى through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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