Arabic vocabulary
كَبُرَgrave
How to say “grave” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَمِنْه قَوْله تَعَالَى ٥ الْكَهْف ﴿كَبرت كلمة تخرج من أَفْوَاههم﴾ الْآيَة
And among them is His saying the Exalted: 'Grave is the word that comes out of their mouths.'
كَبُرَتْ — Grave is. Past 'grew great, loomed grievous', subject coming after. The -at is feminine agreement with 'a word' that follows — Arabic lets the doer come after the verb, and the ending announces its gender.
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