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بَطَلَة useless in Arabic

بَطَلَة is how you say “useless” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وأعوذ بالله أن أكون قد ضيعت الزمان في نعت بطلة الطلبة ،

And I seek refuge in God from having wasted time in praising a useless student,

بَطَلَةِ of a useless

This noun, 'a do-nothing, a useless one', sits in the possessed, 'of'-type ending because 'the praising' before it owns it: 'the praising of a useless...'. It heads a further possessive pairing with the next word, owning it in turn, chaining the 'of' relationship onward.

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