عِبْرَةlesson

Example sentences

• ما تأتي عبرة مثل أن أباك وأمك ماتا،

  No lesson is as profound as the fact that your father and mother have passed away,

  عِبْرَةٌ — lesson. This is the delayed subject of 'comes', the lesson that does not come, so it carries the subject ending though it follows the verb. Its indefinite shape, 'any lesson', fits the negation, so the line means no lesson at all matches what comes next.

  From: Death and Decree →