Arabic vocabulary
شقاءmisery
How to say “misery” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
كم من لذة حصلها الإنسان في ساعة، فكانت سببًا لشقائه الأبدي
How many a pleasure has a person gained in an hour, which then became a cause of his eternal misery!
لِشَقَائِهِ — for his misery. Here 'li-' is fused on as 'for/of' to a noun carrying an attached 'his': for his misery. The preposition governs the noun, the suffix supplies the owner, and the whole marks the misery as belonging to that person.
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