Arabic vocabulary
تَبًّاwoe in Arabic
تَبًّا is how you say “woe” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
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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