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تَبًّا woe in Arabic

تَبًّا is how you say “woe” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فتبا لك سائر الدهر ؛

Then woe to you for all eternity;

فَتَبًّا then woe

This is the bound fa- 'then, so' attached to a curse-word in the object ending, 'woe, ruin'. The fa- links the malediction to the prior condition, and the noun's object ending is the fixed shape Arabic uses for such exclamatory curses, which have no spoken verb behind them.

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