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أَلِيم painful in Arabic

أَلِيم is how you say “painful” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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.

From Turned Away at the Gate

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