Arabic vocabulary
يَسْتَحْيِيto be shy, to feel bashful in Arabic
يَسْتَحْيِي is how you say “to be shy, to feel bashful” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَسْتَحْيِي مِنَ الْحَقِّ
Indeed, God is not ashamed of the truth.
يَسْتَحْيِي — he is ashamed. A present-tense verb 'is ashamed' carrying a third-person masculine 'he', negated by the particle before it. Its built-in 'he' refers to God, the subject named earlier. The present-tense form expresses a standing truth rather than a one-off event — God never shies from the truth.
From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →
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