Arabic vocabulary
شَحِيح is how you say “stingy” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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 →OpenArabic teaches words like شَحِيح through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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