Arabic vocabulary
وَيْلٌwoe in Arabic
وَيْلٌ 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
فَإِذَا لَمْ يَقْدِرْ أَنْ يَسْتَزِلَّهُ قَالَ يَا وَيْلَهُ
So when he could not win him over, he would exclaim, "Woe to him."
وَيْلَهُ — woe to him. This noun means 'woe' and carries an attached '-him' at its end, together a cry of lament 'woe to him'. The accusative shape is fixed for this exclamatory formula. The '-him' marks the one the woe is wished upon.
From: On Reason and Temptation →
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