Arabic vocabulary
لَاوَمَafflict in Arabic
لَاوَمَ is how you say “afflict” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فلاومه الخزي واللعن سجيس عجيس
So disgrace and curse are intertwined continuously with him.
فَلَاوَمَهُ — so [it] afflicted him. The fused front letter marks a 'so/then' result. The rest is a past-tense verb carrying its own subject and with 'him' fused to its end as the object, so one word means 'so it afflicted him', the 'him' pointing back to the cursed figure of the passage.
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