Arabic vocabulary
الشَّوَاغِلِworldly distractions
How to say “worldly distractions” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَإِذَا عَادَ إِلَى الشَّوَاغِلِ، اِجْتَذَبَهُ بِآفَاتِهَا،
When he returns to worldly distractions, their afflictions draw him back.
الشَّوَاغِلِ — worldly distractions. This is a broken-plural noun wearing 'the', the endpoint of the returning, sitting in the genitive the preposition governs. It names the worldly pulls he goes back to.
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