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عُقُوقُ ingratitude in Arabic

عُقُوقُ is how you say “ingratitude” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَلَمَّا تَرَقَّوا فَعَاقُوا وَالْعُقُوقُ مِنَ الْذُّنُوبِ الْكِبَارِ،

When they grew tender, they were ungrateful, and ingratitude is among the major sins,

وَالْعُقُوقُ and the ingratitude

The connector wa- ('and') fused onto a noun carrying al- ('the'). Here wa- opens a fresh general statement — 'and ingratitude is ...' — coordinating a moral comment with the story. The definite article treats ingratitude as a known, named vice that the next words will rank among grave sins.

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