Arabic vocabulary
ضِيقdistress
How to say “distress” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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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