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كَبُر grievous in Arabic

كَبُر is how you say “grievous” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَمِنْه قَوْله تَعَالَى ٥ الْكَهْف ﴿كَبرت كلمة تخرج من أَفْوَاههم﴾ الْآيَة

And from it His, the Exalted, saying: 'Grievous is the word that comes out of their mouths.'

كَثِيرَةً grievous

In the verse this word is the past-tense verb 'grew great, loomed grievous'. The -at on its end is feminine agreement with 'a word', the subject that follows the verb — Arabic lets the doer come after, and the verb's ending announces its gender.

From The Declaration of Faith

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