Arabic vocabulary
قُبْح is how you say “ugliness” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
بأن يتفكر في قبح صورته عند الغضب، وفي سوء عاقبة ما يصدر منه
by thinking about the ugliness of his appearance when angry, and the bad consequences of what he does.
قُبْحِ — the ugliness of. This noun opens a possessive pair, 'the ugliness of his appearance', linked straight to its owner with no word for 'of'. Governed by the preceding 'about', it sits in that form.
From: Restraining Anger →OpenArabic teaches words like قُبْح through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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