Arabic vocabulary
أَوَى is how you say “to give shelter” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
وَقَدْ أَوَيْتُمْ الصُّبَاةَ،
And indeed you sheltered the young people.
أَوَيْتُمْ — you gave shelter. A past verb carrying its 'you (plural)' subject in the -tum ending — the suffix itself names the doers. So the whole 'you all gave shelter' sits in one word, no separate pronoun needed.
From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →لَا يَأْوُونَ إِلَى أَهْلٍ وَلَا مَالٍ،
They do not take refuge in people or in wealth.
يَأْوُونَ — they take refuge. A present-tense verb with the plural 'they' ending built in, meaning 'they take refuge'; the subject is the group just discussed. Negated by the 'not' before it, it states a general practice they avoid. The 'they' rides in the verb's ending.
From: Generosity to the Poor →OpenArabic teaches words like أَوَى through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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