Arabic vocabulary
أَمْرَضَto cause illness in Arabic
أَمْرَضَ is how you say “to cause illness” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
أَمْرَضُوا كَبِدِي وَانْحَلُّوا جِسْمِي
They made my liver sick and they wasted away my body.
أَمْرَضُوا — they made sick. A past verb on a causative pattern, 'made sick', carrying a plural '-u' suffix as its subject, 'they'. The pattern turns a plain 'be sick' root into 'cause to be sick'. It reaches forward to take 'my liver' as its object, opening the lover's lament.
From: Seeking Refuge from the Devil →
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