Oct 3, 2022 18:33
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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!
Does this mean bitterly?
وأخذ يرتجف وبدأ البكاء بحرقة
So he began to cry bitterly?
Thanks!
Proposed translations
(English)
4 +3 | Bitterly, inconsolably | Lamine Boukabour |
3 +1 | began to cry his heart out | mona elshazly |
4 | smarted | Linda Al-Bairmani |
Proposed translations
+3
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Bitterly, inconsolably
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+1
2 hrs
began to cry his heart out
began to cry his heart out
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
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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