Arabic vocabulary
المُعَاقِبَةَthe punishment
How to say “the punishment” 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.
الْمُعَاقِبَةَ — the punishment. A noun naming the act of punishing, working like an English '-ing' word and carrying 'the'. It is the owned half of 'the greatest of punishment', so it takes the 'of...' ending. So it names the category being ranked: among all penalties, the worst is described next.
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