Arabic vocabulary

رِفْثٌobscenity in Arabic

رِفْثٌ is how you say “obscenity” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

وَقَدْ رُوِيَّنَا عَنْ ابْنِ عَائِشَةَ أَحَادِيثًا مِلَاحًا فِي بَعْضِهَا رِفْثٌ،
And indeed we have narrated from Ibn Aisha hadiths that are witty, and some of them contain obscenity.
رِفْثٌ — obscenity. An indefinite noun naming the coarse content, serving as the thing-that-exists in the 'in some of them there is...' frame. It carries the plain subject-form ending, marking it as what the partitive clause asserts to be present.
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