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ضِيقُ tightness in Arabic

ضِيقُ is how you say “tightness” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَقَصْرُ طُولِ النَّهَى، وَلَوْ فَكَّكَهَا بِالِانْتِقَالِ مِنْ حَالٍ إِلَى حَالٍ لَتَنَفُّسٌ عَنْهَا ضِيقُ العُقْدَةِ،

He shortened the duration of his restraint; had he loosened it by shifting from one state to another, relief from the tightness of the knot would have followed.

ضِيقُ the tightness

This noun heads an ownership pairing with the next word, 'the tightness of the knot', set side by side with no separate 'of'. As the lead noun it leans on the following noun for its definiteness, building an 'X of Y' unit.

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