Arabic vocabulary
استعانةseeking help
How to say “seeking help” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فالاستعانة كالدعاء وَالْمَسْأَلَة
For seeking help is like supplication and requesting.
فَالِاسْتِعَانَةُ — so seeking help. Here the 'so/then' prefix opens an explanatory follow-up, picking up the previous point, and the noun carries 'the' so it is definite. Its plain subject ending marks it as the topic, seeking-help, that the comparison defines.
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