Arabic vocabulary
عِثَارٍstumble
How to say “stumble” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
بَيِّنًا تَجْرِي بِرَاكِبِهَا عَثَرَتْ بِهِ أَيُّ عِثَارٍ،
Clearly, it was running with its rider, it stumbled on it—what a stumble.
عثار — stumble. An indefinite noun completing the exclamation — 'what a stumble' — as the owner end of the 'what a ...' link, so it takes the genitive ending. Its indefiniteness suits the open-ended wonder, leaving the magnitude of the fall to the imagination. It names the very event being marvelled at.
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