Arabic vocabulary
يَأْسٌdespair
How to say “despair” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فجاءت البشارة في كانون اليأس بآمال تموز،
The good news came in the midst of despair with the hopes of July.
اليَأْسِ — of despair. The owning half of 'the winter of despair', in the genitive because it completes the possessive pairing. The ending and order carry the 'of' with no separate word, naming the inner state the bleak season stands for.
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