Arabic vocabulary
How to say “waste” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
إياك أن تشتغل بهذا الجدل الذي ظهر بعد انقراض الأكابر من العلماء يشير إلى جدل العميدي فإنه يبعد عن الفقه، ويضيع العمر، ويورث الوحشة والعداوة،
Beware of getting involved in this debate that emerged after the passing of the great scholars (referring to the debate of Al-Amidi), for it distances you from understanding the law, wastes your life, and breeds loneliness and enmity.
ويُضَيِّعُ — and wastes. 'and wastes' — 'wa' plus present 'squanders', subject 'it' inside; form-II.
From: Avoiding Scholarly Disputation →فَلَا يُضَيِّعُ وَقْتَهُ مِنْ غَيْرِ فَائِدَةٍ،
So he did not waste his time on anything that brought no benefit.
يُضَيِّعُ — he wastes. A present-tense verb under the preceding negation, with its 'he' subject built in. In this passage about his habits the negated present reads as a settled custom: he never wasted. The doubled middle consonant gives the verb its causative 'cause to be lost' force.
From: A Life of Reading and Writing →OpenArabic teaches words like يُضَيِّعُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
Get the app