Arabic vocabulary
ضِيقdistress in Arabic
ضِيق is how you say “distress” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَقَوله النَّحْل وَلَا تحزن عَلَيْهِم وَلَا تَكُ فِي ضيق مِمَّا يمكرون
And His saying in An-Nahl: 'Do not grieve over them and do not be in distress from what they plot.'
ضِيقٍ — distress. Indefinite noun, 'distress/tightness', governed by the preposition into the owned form. The indefinite ending leaves it general; with 'be' it completes 'do not be in distress'.
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