Arabic vocabulary
هَجْوsatire in Arabic
هَجْو is how you say “satire” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
ويندر على الشعراء المجودين من يتصون من الهجو،
And it is rare among skilled poets to refrain from satire,
الْهَجْوِ — satire. Genitive after the preposition, this names what is abstained from: satire/lampooning. It is the vice the rare, restrained poet avoids. Its ending answers to the preposition.
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