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عاشِق
lover (someone passionately in love) /ˈʕaː.ʃɪq/
nounB2#3033 most common
Also: one infatuated, devotee (of an art, place, or cause)
Example sentences
هُوَ عاشِقٌ.
He is a lover.
هِيَ عاشِقَةٌ لِلْمُوسيقى.
She is a lover of music.
أَنا عاشِقٌ لِهٰذِهِ المَدينَةِ.
I am in love with this city.
أَصبَحَ عاشِقًا لَها مُنذُ أَوَّلِ لِقاءٍ.
He fell in love with her from the first meeting.
عُشّاقُ الطَّبيعَةِ يُفَضِّلونَ السَّفَرَ إلى الجِبالِ في الرَّبيعِ.
Nature lovers prefer traveling to the mountains in spring.
لَم يَكُنْ مُجَرَّدَ مُعجَبٍ، بَل كانَ عاشِقًا وَلَهانَ أَفنى عُمرَهُ في انتِظارِها.
He was not just an admirer, but a passionate lover who spent his life waiting for her.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عاشِقٌ | عُشّاقٌ |
| Genitive | عاشِقٍ | عُشّاقٍ |
| Accusative | عاشِقًا | عُشّاقًا |
| Vocative | يا عاشِقُ | يا عُشّاقُ |
Word family
عِشْقpassionate love, infatuation
عَشِقَto fall passionately in love
مَعْشوقbeloved, the one loved
عَشيقlover, paramour (often implies a secret or illicit affair)
عُشّاقlovers (plural)
Etymology
عاشِق comes from the Arabic triliteral root ع-ش-ق (ʿ-sh-q), whose verb عَشِقَ means to fall passionately in love or become infatuated. عاشِق is the active participle, built on the فاعِل pattern used across Arabic to mean 'one who does X'. So عاشِق literally means 'one who loves passionately'.
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