Arabic vocabulary
يَرْحَمُكَmay He have mercy on you
How to say “may He have mercy on you” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَقَالَ مَا تَقُولُ يَرْحَمُكَ اللَّهُ فِي رَجُلٍ لَهُ ابْنَانِ
He said, "What do you say, may God have mercy on you, about a man who has two sons?"
يَرْحَمُكَ — may He have mercy on you. A present-tense prayer verb 'may He have mercy' with an attached 'you' object, slipped in as a polite aside to the listener. The suffix names the addressee as the one prayed for, all inside one word.
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