Arabic vocabulary
قُتْمَة is how you say “stain” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
عليه قتمة عند خلائق من الناس،
Upon him was a dark stain in the view of some people.
قُتْمَةٌ — a dark stain. This noun, a dark stain, is the delayed subject of the place-fronted sentence, in the indefinite nominative with '-un'. Because the place-phrase came first, this subject arrives after it as the thing that is upon him.
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