Arabic vocabulary
بَلَاءِaffliction in Arabic
بَلَاءِ is how you say “affliction” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَهَذِهِ الْحَالَةُ هِيَ حَالَةُ جَهْدِ الْبَلَاءِ
And this condition is a state of severe affliction.
الْبَلَاءَ — the affliction. This definite noun closes the chain 'severity of the affliction' as its final owner, standing in the genitive. Arabic builds these nested 'of' links by simple adjacency, and this last noun anchors the whole chain to a concrete testing affliction.
From: Three States of the Heart →
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