Arabic vocabulary
ثَكْلَىbereaved
How to say “bereaved” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
أَضْحَكَ الثَّكْلَى بِمَا يَسْرُدُ مِنْ أَخْبَارِ البُخَلَاءِ وَالْحَمْقَى
He made the bereaved laugh with the stories he recounted about the misers and the fools.
الثَّكْلَى — the bereaved. A noun for the bereaved/grieving, the object made to laugh. Its shape carries the sense of one stricken by loss, and it stands as the thing the causing acts upon.
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