Arabic vocabulary
الشَّهَوَاتِthe desires
How to say “the desires” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
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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