Arabic vocabulary
هَوْلًا is how you say “terror” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَشَاهَدْنَا هَوْلًا يَمْلَأُ الأَنْفُسَ إِنَابَةً وَنَدَامَةً،
So we saw a terror that filled the souls with repentance and remorse,
هولًا — terror. An indefinite noun (it carries the -an tanwin, not al-) that is the thing seen, the object of the verb before it. Its accusative ending marks it as the target of the seeing, and its indefiniteness presents it as something newly introduced.
From: Public Preaching →OpenArabic teaches words like هَوْلًا through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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