Arabic vocabulary
عَقِيمbarren in Arabic
عَقِيم is how you say “barren” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وعَدَلوا عن التركيب الناتج إلى العقيم
And they turned from productive arrangement to barren.
العَقِيمِ — barren. 'the barren, fruitless', genitive after 'ila' — the sterile kind that yields nothing.
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