Arabic vocabulary
الشَّهَوَاتِ is how you say “the desires” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
زُيِّنَ لِلنَّاسِ حُبُّ الشَّهَوَاتِ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ وَالْبَنِينَ وَالْقَنَاطِيرِ الْمُقَنْطَرَةِ مِنَ الذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ
People were made to find attractive the love of desires: women and sons, and the piled-up heaps of gold and silver.
الشَّهَوَاتِ — the desires. Carries al- ('the') and completes 'love of the desires' as the owner of the chain, so it takes the genitive ending. The plural is formed by internal reshaping. It names what the love is directed at, closing the possessive phrase that the passive verb made appealing.
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