وَيْلِيwoe to me in Arabic

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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