Arabic vocabulary
مُتَسَلِّطِoverbearing
How to say “overbearing” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَهَذِهِ حَالُ الْفَاجِرِ الْقَوِيِّ الْمُتَسَلِّطِ وَالْمُبْتَدِعِ الدَّاعِيَةِ الْمَتْبُوعِ
And this is the state of the wicked, powerful, overbearing innovator and preacher who is followed by others.
الْمُتَسَلِّطِ — the overbearing. An active participle ('the domineering one') used as a further adjective on the same person, agreeing in definiteness and case with the head noun. Arabic stacks such descriptive participles freely, so it adds 'overbearing' to the growing portrait.
From: Three States of the Heart →
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