Arabic vocabulary

بَطَلَةuseless in Arabic

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

Example sentences

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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