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عُقُوق disobedience in Arabic

عُقُوق is how you say “disobedience” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

والبنين وكم صغر قاسى الأب لأجل الصغار، فلما ترقوا فعقوا والعقوق من الذنوب الكبار،

And the children, how much hardship the father endures for the sake of the young; but when they grow up, they disobey, and disobedience is among the grave sins,

وَالْعُقُوقُ and disobedience

The 'and' opens a summarizing statement, and the 'the' makes the abstract noun a known, defined concept being judged. Set as the subject of a 'X is among Y' sentence, it lifts the specific act just mentioned into a general moral category.

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