Arabic vocabulary
الْمُنْكَرِwhat is wrong
How to say “what is wrong” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَلَا صَبْرٌ لَهُ عَلَى الْأَمْرِ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَالنَّهْيِ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ
And he has no patience for enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong.
الْمُنْكَرِ — what is wrong. A definite noun ('the wrong/disapproved') marked by al- and standing in the genitive as the object of the preposition before it. It is built on a participle pattern meaning 'that which is rejected'. It completes the paired formula 'forbidding wrong'.
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