Arabic vocabulary

كَئِبdowncast in Arabic

كَئِب is how you say “downcast” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

فَلَمَّا جَلَسَ إِلَيْهِ قَالَ لِسَيِّدِهِ مَا لِي أَرَاكَ كَئِبًا حَزِينًا
When he sat down beside him, he said to his master, "What is the matter? I see you downcast and sorrowful."
كَئِبًا — downcast. An adjective in the object form (the '-an' tail), describing the 'you' object of 'I see' as 'downcast'. Arabic puts such a describing predicate after a perception verb into the object case to mean 'I see you (being) downcast'. It is the first of two state-words on 'you'.
From: Luqman's Wisdom and Trial →

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