Arabic vocabulary
الْفَقْرpoverty
How to say “poverty” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَهُوَ الْفَقْرِ الْحَاضِرِ الَّذِي يُؤَدِّي صَاحِبَهُ إِلَى الْعَذَابِ الدَّائِمِ الشَّدِيدِ
And it is the immediate poverty that leads its owner to severe, everlasting punishment.
الْفقر — the poverty. This noun carries the 'the' marker, so it is definite and specific. Paired with the following adjective it forms a described thing, the adjective agreeing with it in definiteness so the two read as one unit.
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