Arabic vocabulary
ثَكْلَىbereaved in Arabic
ثَكْلَى is how you say “bereaved” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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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