Arabic vocabulary
How to say “pleasure” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
الْأَصْنَام لذات الدُّنْيَا كسوداء
The idols are the pleasures of this world, like a dark-skinned woman.
لَذَّاتِ — pleasures of. A sound feminine plural 'pleasures', the middle link of the 'of' chain — owned by 'idols', and itself owning 'the world' — genitive ('-i'). The idols here are the world's delights.
From: Overcoming Desire →OpenArabic teaches words like لَذَّةٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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