Arabic vocabulary
الْعَذَابpunishment in Arabic
الْعَذَاب is how you say “punishment” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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.
الْعَذَاب — the punishment. This noun takes 'the' and so is definite, and it sits in the genitive because the preposition before it demands that ending. It is the endpoint of the motion the verb set up.
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