Arabic vocabulary
بَخِيلmiserly in Arabic
بَخِيل is how you say “miserly” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَمَنْ هُوَ بَخِيلٌ شَحِيحٌ فَلَيْسَ بَوَّاقٌ وَلَا مُفْلِحٌ
And whoever is miserly and stingy is neither spared nor successful.
بَخِيلٌ — miserly. This is an adjective serving as the predicate of the verbless statement, describing the 'he' directly. Arabic needs no 'is' between them; the bare adjacency carries 'he is miserly'.
From: Charity and Stinginess →
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