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مُعَانَاة hardship in Arabic

مُعَانَاة is how you say “hardship” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَذَلِكَ شَيْء لَا تَعب عَلَيْك فِيهِ وَلَا نصب وَلَا معاناة

And this is something that does not burden you with effort, nor toil, nor hardship.

مُعَانَاةٍ hardship

A Form III action-noun naming the drawn-out enduring of suffering; the Form III pattern carries that sense of a sustained, mutual struggle. Indefinite again, it caps the list: no such ordeal is involved.

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More example sentences

لَيْسَ هُوَ عملا بالجوارح يشق عَلَيْك معاناته

It is not an action of the limbs that causes you hardship in its endeavor.

مُعَانَاتُهُ its suffering

A Form III action-noun, 'the enduring of it', with '-hu' pointing back to the work; it is the delayed subject of 'weighs hard'. So literally 'its enduring weighs hard on you', the very thing the sentence denies.

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