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عَشِق
to fall passionately in love (with), to love to the point of obsession /ˈʕa.ʃi.qa/
verbB2#4149 most common
Also: to be infatuated with, to adore, to love ardently
Example sentences
هُوَ عَشِقَ القِراءَةَ.
He fell passionately in love with reading.
عَشِقَتِ الفَتاةُ الموسيقى مُنْذُ طُفولَتِها.
The girl has loved music passionately since her childhood.
أَنا أَعْشَقُ السَّفَرَ إِلى بُلْدانٍ جَديدَةٍ كُلَّ عامٍ.
I love traveling to new countries passionately every year.
عَشِقَ الشّاعِرُ الحُرِّيَّةَ وَكَتَبَ عَنْها أَجْمَلَ قَصائِدِهِ.
The poet loved freedom passionately and wrote his most beautiful poems about it.
لَطالَما عَشِقَتِ الأُمَّةُ أَرْضَها رَغْمَ كُلِّ الصِّعابِ الَّتي واجَهَتْها.
The nation has long loved its land passionately despite all the hardships it has faced.
عَشِقَ الفَيْلَسوفُ الحِكْمَةَ عِشْقًا لَمْ يُضاهِهِ أَيُّ حُبٍّ آخَرَ في حَياتِهِ.
The philosopher loved wisdom with a passion that no other love in his life could match.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَعْشَقُ | عَشِقْتُ | سَأَعْشَقُ |
| 2sg | تَعْشَقُ | عَشِقْتَ | سَتَعْشَقُ |
| 3sg | يَعْشَقُ | عَشِقَ | سَيَعْشَقُ |
| 1pl | نَعْشَقُ | عَشِقْنا | سَنَعْشَقُ |
| 2pl | تَعْشَقونَ | عَشِقْتُمْ | سَتَعْشَقونَ |
| 3pl | يَعْشَقونَ | عَشِقوا | سَيَعْشَقونَ |
Word family
عِشْقpassionate love, romantic obsession
عاشِقone who loves passionately, a loverمَعْشوقthe beloved, object of passionate love
عَشيقةmistress, female lover (often outside marriage)
Etymology
The verb comes from the Arabic root ʿ-sh-q. Classical Arabic lexicographers, including Ibn Manzur in Lisan al-ʿArab, trace it to ʿashaqah, a climbing vine that wraps itself tightly around a tree trunk and cannot easily be pulled away. The image gave rise to a verb for love so consuming it grips a person the way the vine grips the tree. Because Arabic is a Semitic language, it has no Indo-European root, so no PIE ancestor applies here.
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