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أَسَى grieve in Arabic

أَسَى is how you say “grieve” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَقَوله الْحَدِيد لكيلا تأسوا على مَا فاتكم وَلَا تفرحوا بِمَا آتَاكُم

And His saying in Al-Hadid: 'So that you do not despair over what has passed you by, nor rejoice over what He has given you.'

تَأْسَوْا you grieve

Verb in its subjunctive shape, 'you grieve', triggered by the 'so that not' before it. The altered ending shows the grieving is the outcome being prevented, not a present fact; the plural 'you' is built in.

From Patience in Hard Times

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More example sentences

فَبَقِيَتْ مَرَارَةُ الأَسَى بِلَا مُقَاوِمٍ،

So the bitterness of grief remained, with no one to oppose it,

الأَسَى of grief

A noun ('grief') that is the owned half of 'the bitterness OF grief', in the genitive as the possessor. Set right after the head-noun with no word for 'of', it both completes the phrase and makes the whole subject definite.

From Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness

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