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قَبِيحٌ ugliness in Arabic

قَبِيحٌ is how you say “ugliness” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وقبيحه قبيح وهو الأغلب،

And its ugliness is ugly, and it is predominant,

وَقَبِيحُهُ and its ugliness

Parallel to the earlier 'its good', this is 'and the bad/ugly of it', with attached 'its' looping back to poetry. It is the subject of the verbless clause to follow. The structure deliberately mirrors the previous line to set up a contrast.

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More example sentences

وقبيحه قبيح وهو الأغلب،

And its ugliness is ugly, and it is predominant,

قَبِيحٌ is ugly

The predicate, echoing the root of its subject: 'its ugly is ugly'. Like its twin earlier, the repetition drives the point home. No 'is' is written; the two nouns sitting together carry it.

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