Arabic vocabulary
شَحِيحstingy
How to say “stingy” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَمَنْ هُوَ بَخِيلٌ شَحِيحٌ فَلَيْسَ بَوَّاقٌ وَلَا مُفْلِحٌ
And whoever is miserly and stingy is neither spared nor successful.
شَحِيحٌ — stingy. A second predicate adjective stacked beside the first, reinforcing the description. Both lean on the same subject pronoun with no linking verb between.
From: Charity and Stinginess →
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