Arabic vocabulary

لِئَامٍmean-spirited in Arabic

لِئَامٍ is how you say “mean-spirited” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

نَزَلَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ نُزُولَ الضَّيْفِ عَلَى أَقْوَامٍ لِئَامٍ،
A visitation came upon them, the arrival of the guest among mean-spirited people.
لِئَامٍ — mean-spirited. An indefinite plural adjective placed after its noun and agreeing with it in being plural and genitive, so it attaches to 'groups of people' as their description. Arabic sets the description after the thing described and makes it echo the noun's number and case.
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