Arabic vocabulary
غَبِيٍّignorant in Arabic
غَبِيٍّ is how you say “ignorant” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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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