كَبُرgrievous

Example sentences

• 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 →