Arabic vocabulary

مَصَائِبِcalamities in Arabic

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

Example sentences

مِنَ الْمَصَائِبِ الشَّدِيدَةِ وَالْبَلَايَا الْعَظِيمَةِ،
Among the severe calamities and the great afflictions,
الْمَصَائِبِ — the calamities. The al- marks this broken plural (an irregular plural that reshapes the singular's vowels) as definite, and it takes the 'of' (genitive) ending forced by the 'among' before it. It names the first listed example, the severe calamities, with the next word describing them.
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