Arabic vocabulary
مُتَهَافِتَةِ is how you say “flimsy” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَالْأَفْكَارِ الْمُتَهَافِتَةِ لَدَيْهِمْ هُوَ الْفَاضِلُ الْمَقْبُولُ،
And to them, flimsy, crumbling ideas are considered excellent and acceptable.
الْمُتَهَافِتَةِ — the flimsy. An adjective after its noun and agreeing with it in being definite, plural and genitive, attaching to 'the ideas' as 'the flimsy'. Its verb-pattern pictures things tumbling or collapsing on themselves, so it paints the ideas as crumbling rather than merely weak.
From: Ignoring God's Guidance →OpenArabic teaches words like مُتَهَافِتَةِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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