Arabic vocabulary
وَيْلِيwoe to me
How to say “woe to me” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَالْعَرَبِيُّ يَقُولُ مِنْ مَعَاشَرَتِهِنَّ وَيْلِي
So the Arab says, "Woe to me from living among them."
وَيْلِي — woe to me. An exclamation of distress with -i ('my') attached — literally a cry of 'woe to me'. It is a fixed lament-form, not a regular noun governed by a verb, and stands on its own as the content of what the Arab says. The attached 'my' makes the woe personal to the speaker.
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