Arabic vocabulary
بَائِسٌ is how you say “wretched man” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَيَسْتَسْلِمُ الْبَائِسُ لِلشَّيْطَانِ وَجُنْدِهِ
So the wretched man surrenders to Satan and his troops.
الْبَائِسُ — the wretched man. A definite noun in the nominative serving as the subject of the verb before it. With al- making it definite, it identifies exactly who surrenders, the wretched man, as the doer of the action just described.
From: Three States of the Heart →OpenArabic teaches words like بَائِسٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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