Arabic vocabulary

مِحْنَةtrial in Arabic

مِحْنَة is how you say “trial” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

تَعَرَّضَ إِبْنُ الْجَوْزِيِّ فِي شَيْخُوخَتِهِ لِمِحْنَةٍ قَاسِيَةٍ
In his old age, Ibn al-Jawzi was subjected to a severe trial.
لِمِحْنَةٍ — to a trial. A preposition 'to' fused to a noun 'trial', completing the verb 'underwent' by naming what was undergone. The preposition governs the noun into the genitive and is the fixed partner of that reflexive verb; the trial's indefinite ending marks it as 'a certain severe trial'.
From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →

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