Arabic vocabulary
عُذِّبَ is how you say “punish” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
كَمَا أَنَّ مَنْ آمَنَ بِاللَّهِ وَمَاتَ مُؤْمِنًا فَهُوَ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ الْجَنَّةِ وَإِنْ عُذِّبَ بِالنَّارِ
Just as whoever believes in Allah and dies as a believer is among the companions of Paradise, even if he is punished by the Fire.
عُذِّبَ — he is punished. A passive verb, 'he is punished', whose inner vowels are reshaped so the man receives the action with no named punisher. Arabic marks the passive by the vowel pattern itself.
From: The Sin of Idolatry →OpenArabic teaches words like عُذِّبَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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