Arabic vocabulary
غَبِيٍّignorant
How to say “ignorant” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فقاوم الشهوة مقاومة الفطن لا الغبي،
He resisted desire with the wisdom of the intelligent, not the ignorant.
ٱلْغَبِيِّ — the ignorant. The al- makes this definite, 'the ignorant one'. It is the excluded term after the negator and matches the case of the noun it is contrasted with, so it carries the -i ending parallel to 'the intelligent'.
From: The Story of Prophet Joseph →
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