Arabic vocabulary

حُلْوٌsweetness in Arabic

حُلْوٌ is how you say “sweetness” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.

Example sentences

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 →
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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