Arabic vocabulary
بَخِيلmiserly
How to say “miserly” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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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