Arabic vocabulary
أَلِيمpainful in Arabic
أَلِيم is how you say “painful” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَالْيَوْمَ أُذِيقُكُمْ أَلِيمَ عِقَابِي مَعَ مَا حَرَمْتُكُمْ مِنْ جَزِيلِ ثَوَابِي
So today I will let you taste My painful punishment along with what I have deprived you of My generous reward.
أَلِيمَ — painful. A describing word, 'painful', set before the noun it qualifies and matched to it in the object ending. Here it leans forward onto 'My punishment', the agonising quality of what is made to be tasted.
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