Word.ws English Dictionary

despise in Arabic

اِحْتَقَرَ iḥtaqara

/dɪˈspaɪz/

despise in Arabic: اِحْتَقَرَ (iḥtaqara), أَهَانَ (ʔahāna). In English, despise means to regard with contempt or scorn.

Arabic words for despise

to regard with contempt or scorn
اِحْتَقَرَ iḥtaqara, أَهَانَ ʔahāna

English meaning of despise

  1. verb To regard with contempt or scorn.
  2. verb To disregard or ignore.

Full definition of despise

despise in a sentence

  • Katie despised video games because she saw them as a trashy, boring waste of time.
  • James still despises his brother for the time he pushed him out of a tree during their childhood.

Synonyms of despise

All synonyms of despise

despise in other languages

Questions about despise in Arabic

What is the meaning of despise in Arabic?
Despise in Arabic is اِحْتَقَرَ (iḥtaqara), أَهَانَ (ʔahāna).
ما معنى كلمة despise؟
Despise: اِحْتَقَرَ (iḥtaqara), أَهَانَ (ʔahāna).
What does despise mean in English?
Despise means to regard with contempt or scorn.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: despise (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Arabic words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-despise.ogg.

Cite this page: “despise meaning in Arabic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/arabic/despise. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.