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عِبْرَة lesson in Arabic

عِبْرَة is how you say “lesson” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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.

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