Arabic vocabulary
وَبِيلَةdisaster
How to say “disaster” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وفاسق الكتبة إليه المنتهى في السرق وعاقبة أمرهم وبيلة من الضرب والمصادرة والفقر
And the dissolute scribes reach the pinnacle of theft, and their final outcome is disaster with beatings, confiscation, and poverty.
وَبِيلَةٌ — is disaster. This is the predicate — 'dire / grievous' — naming what their end amounts to. It is nominative as the comment of the sentence, and pairs with the partitive next to spell out the disaster. The 'is' is left unwritten.
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