Arabic vocabulary
How to say “poverty” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَتَحْتُ لَكَ فِي ذَلِكَ سَبْعِينَ بَابًا مِنَ الْفَقْرِ
So I have opened for you in that seventy gates to poverty.
الْفقر — poverty. The noun 'poverty', made definite by al- ('the'), governed by the preceding 'from' and so in the 'of' (genitive) ending. It names the destination the seventy gates open onto.
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