بُخَلَاءmisers

Example sentences

• أَضْحَكَ الثَّكَالَى بِمَا يُسْرَدُ مِنْ أَخْبَارِ البُخَلَاءِ وَالْحَمْقَى وَالْمُغْفَلِينَ وَالْمُتَمَاجِنِينَ وَالظُّرَافِ

  He made the bereaved woman laugh with tales recounted about the misers, the fools, the gullible, those who spar, and the witty.

  البُخَلَاءِ — the misers. A broken plural — pluralized by internal reshaping rather than an ending — naming the misers, the owned half of 'reports of the misers'. It sits in the after-a-possessor case, telling us whose reports begin the list.

  From: The Preacher's Legacy →