Arabic vocabulary
مُعَاقِبًا is how you say “someone being punished” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَمَتَى رَأَيْتَ مُعَاقِبًا؛ فَاعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ لِذُنُوبٍ
So when you see someone being punished, know that it is because of sins.
مُعَاقِبًا — someone being punished. An active participle, an '-er/-ing' word from a verb, naming the one undergoing punishment. It stands in the object-style ending as the thing seen by 'you'. As a participle it can be read as the person caught up in the act, the punished figure the reader is told to notice.
From: Preparing for Death and Repentance →OpenArabic teaches words like مُعَاقِبًا through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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