Arabic vocabulary
أَسْتَحِيI am ashamed
How to say “I am ashamed” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
قَالَ أَسْتَحِي أَنْ أَقُولَهَا
He said, "I am ashamed to say it."
أَسْتَحِي — I am ashamed. A present-tense verb whose initial vowel marks 'I' as the doer, expressing the speaker's feeling of shame. It is the main verb of the reply, and it leans on the 'that...' clause after it to say what he is ashamed to do.
From: A Night of Reckoning →
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