Arabic vocabulary
How to say “insulted” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
وَشَتَمَهُ وَأَغْلَظَ عَلَيْهِ،
He insulted him and spoke harshly to him.
وَشَتَمَهُ — and he insulted him. This joins a linking 'and' to a past verb 'insulted' with a 'him' tag as its object — one word for 'and he insulted him'. The 'and' chains the action on, and the suffix supplies the person insulted.
From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →فَإِذَا شَتَمْتَهُ فَلَيَّهِمْ إِلَى فَلَيَلْطِمْنِي
So if you insult him, let him hurry toward me and strike me.
شَتَمْتَهُ — you insulted him. Past-tense verb with 'you' (one male) inside it and an attached 'him' as its object. Under the 'if/when', it states the triggering act: your insulting of him.
From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →فَشَتَمَهُ فَقَامَ إِلَيْهِ فَلَطَمَ وَجْهَهُ
The son insulted his father, so the father stood up to him and struck his face.
فَشَتَمَهُ — so he insulted him. Consecutive fa- ('and so') on a past-tense verb with 'he' inside and an attached -hu object, 'him'. The fa- sequences the insult onto the prior beat; the object pronoun names who was insulted.
From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →OpenArabic teaches words like شَتَمَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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