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رِفْثٌ obscenity in Arabic

رِفْثٌ is how you say “obscenity” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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.

From Permissible Laughter and Conduct

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