Arabic vocabulary
كَاسِف is how you say “miserable” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
ومن كان عاصيًا، خرج من قبره حزينًا كاسفًا، ووجهه أسود مظلم
And whoever was disobedient, he will emerge from his grave sorrowful and gloomy, with a dark, blackened face.
كَاسِفًا — miserable. A second state-word meaning 'gloomy', paired with the first to describe his condition. It too stands in the object case as a state, matching him as a single masculine.
From: Celebration and the Final Hour →OpenArabic teaches words like كَاسِف through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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