Arabic vocabulary
عَاصِي is how you say “disobedient” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
ومن كان عاصيًا، خرج من قبره حزينًا كاسفًا، ووجهه أسود مظلم
And whoever was disobedient, he will emerge from his grave sorrowful and gloomy, with a dark, blackened face.
عَاصِيًا — disobedient. This is the predicate of 'was', an active participle meaning 'disobedient', so the being-verb puts it in the object case. With no 'the' it stays indefinite, describing the state the person was in.
From: Celebration and the Final Hour →OpenArabic teaches words like عَاصِي through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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