Arabic vocabulary
How to say “prohibit” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
يحرم المراء في القرآن والجدال فيه بغير حق
Argumentation in the Quran and disputing it without right is prohibited.
يُحَرَّمُ — is prohibited. A passive verb — 'is made forbidden' — its doer (the one forbidding) left unstated, since a ruling's source is understood to be the Law. The thing forbidden, 'wrangling,' comes after; the vowels inside mark the passive, no helper word.
From: Quran Interpretation and Debate →فَذَكَرَ مِنْهَا الشِّرْكَ بِاللَّهِ، وَالسِّحْرَ، وَقَتْلَ النَّفْسِ الَّتِي حَرَّمَ اللهُ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ، وَأَكْلَ مَالِ الْيَتِيمِ، وَأَكْلَ الرِّبَا، وَالتَّوَلِّيَ يَوْمَ الزَّحْفِ، وَقَذْفَ الْمُحْصَنَاتِ الْغَافِلَاتِ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ مُتَّفَقٌ عَلَيْهِ
He mentioned among them: associating partners with Allah, sorcery, unjust killing, consuming the wealth of an orphan, usury, fleeing from the battlefield, and falsely accusing chaste, unaware, believing women - agreed upon by scholars.
حَرَّمَ — he prohibited. A past-tense verb with its 'he' subject pattern, 'he forbade', inside the relative clause describing the soul as one whose killing Allah forbade. Its doer is named in the next word.
From: What Small Worship Erases →وَقَالَ تَعَالَى إِنَّهُ مَنْ يُشْرِكْ بِاللَّهِ فَقَدْ حَرَّمَ اللهُ عَلَيْهِ الْجَنَّةَ وَمَأْوَاهُ النَّارُ
And He said: 'Indeed, whoever associates partners with Allah, Allah has forbidden Paradise for him, and his abode is the Fire.'
حَرَّمَ — has forbidden. A past-tense verb, 'has forbidden', the act of the result clause. Its doer is named next, and it takes the thing forbidden as its object.
From: The Sin of Idolatry →وَقَالَ تَعَالَى وَالَّذِينَ لَا يَدْعُونَ مَعَ اللهِ إِلَهًا آخَرَ وَلَا يَقْتُلُونَ النَّفْسَ الَّتِي حَرَّمَ اللهُ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَلَا يَزْنُونَ
And the Exalted said: And those who do not call upon any other god with Allah, and do not take the life which Allah has forbidden except for a just cause, and do not commit adultery.
حَرَّمَ — has forbidden. A past-tense verb in the intensive (doubled) pattern 'made forbidden/sacred', with God as its coming subject. The doubled middle gives the 'declare/render forbidden' sense. It is the verb of the relative clause defining the protected soul, with the doer named in the next word.
From: The Gravity of Murder →OpenArabic teaches words like حَرَّمَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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