مِسْكِين needy in Arabic
مِسْكِين is how you say “needy” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
لَيْسَ الْعجب من فَقير مِسْكين يحب محسنا إِلَيْهِ
It is not astonishing from a poor, needy person to love one who is kind to him.
مِسْكِينٍ needy person
A second adjective trailing 'poor', genitive, indefinite to agree — 'wretchedly needy'. It deepens 'poor': utterly destitute.
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إِنَّمَا الْعجب من محسن يحب فَقِيرا مِسْكينا
The true wonder is that a kind one loves a poor, needy person.
مِسْكِينًا needy person
A second adjective trailing 'poor', accusative, indefinite to agree — 'wretchedly needy'. The wonder: a benefactor loving the utterly destitute — as God loves His servants.
الذين ليسوا من المصلين ولا من مطعمي المسكين
Those who are not among those who pray, nor among those who feed the poor.
الْمِسْكِينِ the poor
This noun carries 'the' and is owned by the participle before it: the feeders of the poor one. As the possessed half it takes the genitive ending; Arabic uses the singular here as a generic class, 'the poor' as a kind.
الثانية ترك إطعام المسكين الذي هو من مراتب الإحسان للعبيد
The second is abandoning feeding the poor, which is among the ranks of benevolence to the servants.
الْمِسْكِينِ the poor
This noun carries 'the' and is owned by 'feeding' before it: the feeding of the poor one. As the possessed half it takes the genitive ending; the singular here names the poor as a generic class.