Arabic vocabulary
خَسِيسٌlowly
How to say “lowly” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وقال إبليس هذا طين وأصل الطين خسيس،
And Iblis said, "This is clay, and the essence of clay is lowly."
خَسِيسٌ — lowly. This indefinite noun is the description of the topic, the predicate, in the plain subject ending. With no separate 'is', the bare noun completes 'the essence of clay is lowly'.
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