Arabic vocabulary
النَّهَىrestraint in Arabic
النَّهَى is how you say “restraint” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَقَصْرُ طُولِ النَّهَى، وَلَوْ فَكَّكَهَا بِالِانْتِقَالِ مِنْ حَالٍ إِلَى حَالٍ لَتَنَفُّسٌ عَنْهَا ضِيقُ العُقْدَةِ،
He shortened the duration of his restraint; had he loosened it by shifting from one state to another, relief from the tightness of the knot would have followed.
النَّهَى — the restraint. The al- makes this definite, 'the' restraint, and it closes the 'length of...' pairing as its owner. Sitting in the owned-by slot, it carries the genitive 'of' ending, locking the chain into 'the shortening of the length of restraint'.
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