Arabic vocabulary
قُبِحَ is how you say “was made ugly” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَلَكِنَّكُمْ مِمَّنْ قُبِحَ بَاطِنُهُ فَرَأَى ظَاهِرَهُ،
But you are among those whose inward is ugly, so he displayed his outward appearance.
قُبْحُ — was made ugly. A noun naming inner ugliness, functioning as the trait predicated of the group in the relative phrase. It supplies the quality 'whose inner part is foul', the content that defines the set 'you' belong to.
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