وَيْحَكَ woe to you in Arabic
وَيْحَكَ is how you say “woe to you” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَقُلْتُ وَيْحَكَ مَا هَذَا الْجَفَاءُ؟
Then I said, "Woe to you; what is this rudeness?"
وَيْحَكَ woe to you
This is an exclamation of woe with the attached 'you' (masculine) on its end: a fixed scolding cry, 'woe to you'. The pronoun fixes whom the rebuke falls on. It is a frozen expressive formula, so it sits outside the normal subject-verb machinery and just vents reproach at the addressee.
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More example sentences
فَقَالَ لَهُ وَيْحَكَ أَمَّا تَرَى أَسَانِيدَهَا؟
So he said to him, "Woe to you! Do you not see its chains of transmission?"
وَيْحَكَ Woe to you
A rebuke exclamation ending in -ka 'you (to a man)', so it bundles the scolding word with its target. The -ka pins the rebuke directly on the addressee, making it 'woe to you' rather than a general cry.
فَقَالَ وَيْحَكَ أُكْتُبْهُ فَإِنَّ الْأَشْرَافُ يَعْجِبُهُمْ الْمُلَاحَةُ
He said, "Woe to you; write it down, for the nobles admire ornamented speech."
وَيْحَكَ woe to you
A rebuke exclamation ending in -ka 'you (to a man)', so it bundles the scolding word with its target. The -ka pins the rebuke on the addressee, making it 'woe to you' aimed straight at the listener.