Arabic vocabulary
المُعَاقَبthe one being punished
How to say “the one being punished” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
أَعْظَمُ الْمُعَاقِبَةَ أَنْ لَا يَحِسَّ الْمُعَاقِبُ بِالْعُقُوبَةِ،
The greatest punishment is that the one being punished does not feel the punishment.
الْمُعَاقِبُ — the one being punished. A doer-noun (active participle) carrying 'the', the subject of 'does not feel'. Though built from 'to punish', in context it is the one undergoing the penalty, the one on whom it falls. So it names the numbed sufferer who, worst of all, never notices his own punishment.
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