Arabic vocabulary

لَعَنَcursed in Arabic

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

Example sentences

قَالَ تَعَالَى وَمَنْ يَقْتُلْ مُؤْمِنًا مُتَعَمِّدًا فَجَزَاؤُهُ جَهَنَّمُ خَالِدًا فِيهَا وَغَضِبَ اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَلَعَنَهُ وَأَعَدَّ لَهُ عَذَابًا عَظِيمًا
He (Allah) said: 'And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell, to abide in it, and Allah's wrath is upon him, and He has cursed him and prepared for him a great punishment.'
وَلَعَنَهُ — and He cursed him. This fronts wa- 'and' onto a past-tense verb 'cursed', with 'him' attached as object. The wa- adds this to the chain of penalties, the subject (God) carried over from before without restatement. The attached object pronoun is the killer who is cursed; the past form states it as a done divine act.
From: The Gravity of Murder →

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