Arabic vocabulary
How to say “distress” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَقَالَتْ نَحْنُ بَشَرٌ فِي ضَيْقٍ وَشِدَّةٍ
She said, "We are human beings in distress and hardship."
ضَيْقٍ — distress. This is an indefinite noun, no 'the', governed by the 'in' before it and so in the governed form. It names the hardship they are in. The indefiniteness leaves it as distress in general, the condition they describe themselves as living in.
From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →OpenArabic teaches words like ضَيْقٍ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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