Arabic vocabulary

يَظْلِمoppress in Arabic

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

Example sentences

المسلم أخو المسلم، لا يظلمه، ولا يخذله ولا يحقره
A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim; he does not oppress him, nor does he abandon him or look down upon him.
يَظْلِمُهُ — oppress him. A present-tense verb with the attached 'him' as its object, so the single word means 'he wrongs him'. The 'he' subject is inside the verb's form and the suffix marks the fellow Muslim as the one wronged; the leading negator turns it into 'he does not wrong him'.
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