Arabic vocabulary
How to say “weeping” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
اعرف قدر مَا ضَاعَ مِنْك وابك بكاء من يدْرِي مِقْدَار الْفَائِت
Know the value of what you have lost and weep like one who knows the worth of what is gone.
بُكَاءَ — weeping. A verbal noun 'weeping', set in the accusative as the verb's own noun (a cognate accusative) and first term of an 'of' pairing — 'weep the weeping of one who knows'. It intensifies the command: weep as such a one weeps.
From: Night Prayer and Nearness to God →OpenArabic teaches words like بُكَاءٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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