Arabic vocabulary
خَبُثَis corrupt
How to say “is corrupt” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَإِذا طَابَ الْملك طابت جُنُوده وَإِذا خبث خبثت جُنُوده
If the king is sound, the soldiers are sound, and if it is corrupt, the soldiers are corrupt.
خَبُثَ — is corrupt. Past-form verb, 'it becomes foul', the trigger of this second condition, with its subject 'the king/heart' understood from context. Verb-first order again.
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