Arabic vocabulary
هَلَكَ is how you say “perish” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
احْتَرز من عدوين هلك بهما أَكثر الْخلق
Be wary of two enemies by which most of creation has perished.
هَلَكَ — he perished. A past-tense verb 'was destroyed / perished', its subject coming next. The ruin those two cause.
From: Directing Desire Toward God →OpenArabic teaches words like هَلَكَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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