Arabic vocabulary

إِغْتِرَارٍself-deception in Arabic

إِغْتِرَارٍ is how you say “self-deception” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

غَيْرُ أَنَّهُ زَيْنُهَا وَطِفْلُ الْهَوَى ذُو إِغْتِرَارٍ،
Except that he adorned it, and the one carried away by desire was full of self-deception.
إِغْتِرَارٍ — self-deception. An action-noun naming the state of being deceived by appearances, completing 'possessor of self-deception'. As the owner end of the 'possessor of ...' link it takes the genitive ending. Together the pair says the desire-driven person is steeped in delusion.
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