Arabic vocabulary
وَبِيلَة is how you say “disaster” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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.
From: Intention in Islam →OpenArabic teaches words like وَبِيلَة through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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