وَشَيْنًاugliness

Example sentences

• فاسدة كان عمله تابعًا لسريرته لا اعتبار بصورته فتبدو سريرته على وجهه سوادا وظلمة وشينا

  His deeds were corrupt, following his inner self; no regard was paid to his outward appearance, so his inner state appeared on his face as blackness, darkness, and ugliness.

  وَشَيْنًا — ugliness. The wa- closes the list with its last member, once more in the accusative-of-manner matching the others. Arabic keeps every item of such a coordinated series in the same case, so this final 'and...' rounds off the set of negative guises in parallel with the positive list earlier.

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