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وَيْلَتَا Alas in Arabic

وَيْلَتَا is how you say “Alas” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

قَالَتْ يَا وَيْلَتَا أَأَلِدُ وَأَنَا عَجُوزُ

She said, "Alas, will I give birth while I am old?"

وَيلتا Alas

A fixed cry of woe; grammatically it is an exclamation rather than a content word, with the call-particle before it reinforcing the outburst. It carries emotion, not a piece of information.

From On Birth and Its Timing

The English is machine-translated.

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