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لعن curse in Arabic

لعن is how you say “curse” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَقَالَ رجل لَعنه الله مَا أَكثر مَا يُؤْتِي بِهِ إِلَى النَّبِي

So a man said, 'May Allah curse him; how often he is brought to the Prophet!'

لَعَنَهُ may curse him

This is a past-tense verb with an attached 'him' as object, but here it works as a prayer or curse against the man, 'may He curse him'. Arabic often uses the past-verb shape this way to invoke a wish, and its subject God is named right after.

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