عَاقُواbe ungrateful

Example sentences

• فَلَمَّا تَرَقَّوا فَعَاقُوا وَالْعُقُوقُ مِنَ الْذُّنُوبِ الْكِبَارِ،

  When they grew tender, they were ungrateful, and ingratitude is among the major sins,

  فَعَاقُوا — so they were ungrateful. A past-tense 'they' verb (the -u tail marks the plural subject) prefixed by fa- ('so'). The fa- here is consequential: it presents the ingratitude as the bitter result that followed their growing up. So fa- ties cause to effect across the two verbs, sharpening the disappointment.

  From: This World Is Short →

• فَإِنَّكَ مَتَى إِلْتَفَتَّ إِلَيْهِمْ أَخَذُوْكَ وَعَاقُوْكَ

  For whenever you turn to them, they seize you and hold you back.

  وَعَاقُوكَ — and they held you back. The wa- joins a second consequence ('and held you back'), parallel to the seizing before it. The verb carries its plural 'they' subject and the object -ka ('you') on the end, so it too packs subject and object into one word. The connector pairs the two results as twin outcomes of turning to them.

  From: Choosing Good Companions →