Arabic vocabulary
يُؤْذِي is how you say “harms” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
باطلها يؤذي المرء في دينه ويضلله،
Its falsehood harms a person in their religion and misleads them.
يُؤْذِي — it harms. A Form IV verb ('does harm'), present, with its subject 'it' inside; its weak final root shows in the short ending. The Form IV pattern makes the root transitive — it reaches out to injure someone. The one harmed comes next as its object.
From: Intention in Islam →يَنَالُنِي حَرُّهُ وَلَا يُؤْذِينِي دُخَانُهُ،
Its heat reaches me, and its smoke does not harm me.
يُؤْذِينِي — harms me. A present-tense verb with -ni ('me') attached as its object, the same special 'me' ending used after verbs. The negator before it puts the whole verb under negation, so the action is denied: the smoke does not reach the speaker. Its doer, the smoke, follows as the next word in the typical verb-then-subject order.
From: Mothers and the Companions →فَأَلْقَى عَلَيْهِ كَلَامًا يُؤْذِيهِ،
Then he cast words at him that would harm him.
يُؤْذِيهِ — would harm him. A present-tense verb 'it harms' carrying the object -hu ('him') on the end, so verb and object fuse into one word. With no relative word before it, this whole clause describes the indefinite 'words', the normal Arabic way of attaching a describing clause to an indefinite noun. So it reads 'words that hurt him'.
From: Choosing Good Companions →OpenArabic teaches words like يُؤْذِي through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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