Arabic vocabulary
مَرْضَاةَ is how you say “pleasure” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
هِیَ الَّتِي تَحْوِي مَرْضَاةَ الرَّبِّ وَمَحَبَّتَهُ
It is that which contains the Lord's pleasure and His love.
مَرْضَاةَ — the pleasure. A noun 'pleasure/approval' heading an 'of' chain; it drops its own 'the' and demands the following noun to complete 'the pleasure of...'. It also sits as the object of 'contains'. It heads the phrase whose owner comes next.
From: Trust and Piety →OpenArabic teaches words like مَرْضَاةَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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