Arabic vocabulary
كَرْبِdistress
How to say “distress” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَالنَّصْرُ مَعَ الصَّبْرِ وَالْفَرَجُ مَعَ الْكَرْبِ وَالْعُسْرُ مَعَ الْيُسْرِ
So victory is with patience, and relief is with distress, and hardship is with ease.
الْكَرْبِ — distress. A definite noun 'distress', governed into the genitive by the preceding 'with'. Its al- marks the hardship meant. With the preposition it completes 'relief is with distress', the second maxim.
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