Arabic vocabulary
مَصَائِبِcalamities
How to say “calamities” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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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