Oct 3, 2022 18:33
1 yr ago
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Arabic term

بحرقة

Arabic to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
Hi everyone,

Does this mean bitterly?

وأخذ يرتجف وبدأ البكاء بحرقة

So he began to cry bitterly?

Thanks!

Proposed translations

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Bitterly, inconsolably

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Peer comment(s):

agree Inas Albaba
1 hr
شكرا
agree mona elshazly
2 hrs
شكرا
agree Linda Al-Bairmani
1 day 13 hrs
شكرا
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2 hrs

began to cry his heart out

began to cry his heart out
Peer comment(s):

agree Linda Al-Bairmani
1 day 10 hrs
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1 day 13 hrs

smarted

Smart has been used to refer to the causing of pain since Old English (our smart comes from the Old English smeart, meaning "causing pain"). This sense is still very much in use today, at least as a verb.

Ouch, ouch, ouch—that smarts!
—Rob Bacon, Logansport Pharos-Tribune (Logansport, IN), 26 Jul. 1961

Sidestepping the shopping carts at Farmer's Market, 3rd & Fairfax, or, ouch, that smarts!
Dick Kidson, The Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 1965
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