Arabic vocabulary
إِيثَارُpreferring
How to say “preferring” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَطُولُ الْأَمَلِ وَإِيثَارُ الْعَاجِلِ عَلَى الْآجِلِ
Lengthy hopes and preferring the immediate over the later.
وَإِيثَارُ — and preferring. Two pieces: wa- ('and') adds another item, and the noun is the verbal noun for 'preferring', the naming of an act. It heads a possessive pairing with the next word, linking to 'the immediate' to mean 'preferring of the immediate'.
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