Arabic vocabulary
مَرَض is how you say “disease” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
فإنه يورث أمراضا في القلوب،
For indeed it causes diseases in the hearts.
أَمْرَاضًا — diseases. This noun, diseases, is the indefinite accusative object of the verb, marked by the '-an' nunation. The indefiniteness presents them as some unspecified ailments that result, and the accusative marks them as what is brought about.
From: Unity Over Partisanship →وينسى ما يلحقه من الأمراض والأسقام، وما يعتريه من الكبر والهرم،
And forgets what afflicts him of diseases and ailments, and what befalls him of old age and senility,
الأَمْرَاضِ — diseases. The noun governed by the partitive 'of', in that preposition's form, its 'the' marking diseases as a known general class. It heads the list of what befalls him.
From: A Path to Mercy →OpenArabic teaches words like مَرَض through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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