Arabic vocabulary
ضَّارِّharmful
How to say “harmful” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وقال الإقلال من الضار خير من الإكثار من النافع
And he said, 'Reducing harmful things is better than increasing beneficial ones.'
الضَّارِّ — the harmful. This is the noun governed by 'from', in the genitive because of it, made definite by 'al-'. It names the harmful things that are to be reduced.
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