Arabic vocabulary
How to say “flimsy” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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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