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حُلْوٌ sweetness in Arabic

حُلْوٌ is how you say “sweetness” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وحلوه بحامضه،

And its sweetness with its sourness.

حُلْوُهُ its sweetness

This noun, 'its sweetness', carries the attached -hu 'its' at its end, fusing the thing and its owner into one word. The -hu reaches back to the food, and the noun is the item to be balanced by what follows.

From The Art of Eating Well

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More example sentences

وإدمان الحلو يرخي الشهوة ويحمي البدن،

Continuous consumption of sweets weakens appetite and heats the body.

الحُلْوِ sweets

The al- marks this definite, 'the sweet', and it sits in the possessed ending because the action-noun before it owns it: 'indulging in the sweet'. The two nouns sit side by side, the second taking this owned-half shape.

From The Art of Eating Well

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