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أُكْذُوبَة
a lie /ʔukˈðuːbah/
nounB1#2619 most common
Also: fabrication, fib, falsehood
Example sentences
هَذِهِ أُكْذُوبَةٌ.
This is a lie.
قَالَ لِي أُكْذُوبَةً كَبِيرَةً.
He told me a big lie.
لَا تُصَدِّقْ هَذِهِ الأُكْذُوبَةَ.
Don't believe this lie.
انْتَشَرَتِ الأُكْذُوبَةُ بِسُرْعَةٍ عَلَى وَسَائِلِ التَّوَاصُلِ الاجْتِمَاعِيِّ.
The lie spread quickly on social media.
كَشَفَ الصَّحَفِيُّونَ أُكْذُوبَةَ الشَّرِكَةِ بَعْدَ أَشْهُرٍ مِنَ التَّحْقِيقِ.
Journalists exposed the company's lie after months of investigation.
كَانَتْ حَيَاتُهُ السِّيَاسِيَّةُ كُلُّهَا مَبْنِيَّةً عَلَى أُكْذُوبَةٍ لَمْ يَكْتَشِفْهَا أَحَدٌ إِلَّا بَعْدَ وَفَاتِهِ.
His entire political life was built on a lie that no one discovered until after his death.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | أُكْذُوبَةٌ | أَكَاذِيبُ |
| Genitive | أُكْذُوبَةٍ | أَكَاذِيبَ |
| Accusative | أُكْذُوبَةً | أَكَاذِيبَ |
| Vocative | يَا أُكْذُوبَةُ | يَا أَكَاذِيبُ |
Word family
كَذَبَ (kadhaba)to lie
كَذِب (kadhib)lying, falsehood (general)
كَاذِب (kādhib)liar; false
كَذَّاب (kadhdhāb)habitual liar
مَكْذُوب (makdhūb)fabricated, invented
Etymology
أُكْذُوبَة comes from the Arabic root ك-ذ-ب (kadhaba), which means to lie or to be false. This root is shared across the Semitic language family. The noun pattern أُفْعُولَة usually marks one concrete instance of an action, so أُكْذُوبَة points to a single specific lie or invented story, not lying as a general concept.
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