Arabic vocabulary
How to say “doubt” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فيه من حكم أو خبر أو أثبت ما نفاه أو نفي ما أثبته وهو عالم بذلك أو يشك في شئ من ذلك
It contains a ruling or a report, or he affirmed what he had denied, or denied what he had affirmed; he is aware of that, or doubts something of it.
يَشُكُّ — he doubts. A present-tense verb 'he doubts' with the 'he' doer built in. The shift from the earlier past verbs to present here paints the doubting as an ongoing state rather than a single past act. It names the last offence in the chain.
From: Honoring the Quran →OpenArabic teaches words like يَشُكُّ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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