Arabic vocabulary

ثَّكَالَىbereaved woman in Arabic

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

Example sentences

أَضْحَكَ الثَّكَالَى بِمَا يُسْرَدُ مِنْ أَخْبَارِ البُخَلَاءِ وَالْحَمْقَى وَالْمُغْفَلِينَ وَالْمُتَمَاجِنِينَ وَالظُّرَافِ
He made the bereaved woman laugh with tales recounted about the misers, the fools, the gullible, those who spar, and the witty.
الثَّكَالَى — the bereaved woman. A feminine noun for a grieving, bereaved woman, here the object made to laugh. Its feminine pattern marks the gender within the word itself, and it sits as the thing the causing acts upon.
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