Learn Arabic › B1 › بَشِع
بَشِع
hideous, repulsive /baˈʃiʕ/
adjectiveB1#2952 most common
Also: ugly, atrocious, monstrous
Example sentences
هذا المنظر بَشِع.
This view is hideous.
رائحة القمامة بَشِعة جدًا.
The smell of the garbage is very hideous.
ارتكب الجندي جريمة بَشِعة ضد المدنيين.
The soldier committed a hideous crime against civilians.
كانت مناظر الحرب بَشِعة لدرجة لا تُحتمل.
The scenes of war were hideous to an unbearable degree.
يصف الكاتب في روايته أفعالًا بَشِعة ارتكبها الطاغية خلال حكمه.
In his novel, the author describes hideous acts committed by the tyrant during his rule.
على الرغم من بَشَاعة الجريمة، ظل المجرم بَشِعًا في تصرفاته حتى لحظة القبض عليه دون أي إحساس بالندم.
Despite the atrocity of the crime, the criminal remained hideous in his conduct until the moment of his arrest, without any sense of remorse.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | بَشِعٌ | بِشَاعٌ |
| Genitive | بَشِعٍ | بِشَاعٍ |
| Accusative | بَشِعًا | بِشَاعًا |
| Vocative | يا بَشِعُ | يا بِشَاعُ |
Word family
بَشَاعةhideousness, atrocity
أَبْشَعmore/most hideous (elative)
يَبْشُعto be or become hideous
بَشِعَةhideous (feminine form)
Etymology
بَشِع is a Classical Arabic adjective built on the فَعِل pattern, a form used for inherent qualities, from the triliteral root ب-ش-ع. The root carries the core sense of ugliness, repulsiveness, or moral atrocity, and it also yields the verb بَشُع (to become hideous) and the abstract noun بَشَاعة (hideousness, atrocity). As a native Semitic root, it has no traceable link to Indo-European vocabulary.
Learn Arabic the way that sticks.
Every word here is a full Polylex card with native audio and spaced repetition, so 4,080 words actually move into long-term memory.
Start free
Every word here is a full Polylex card with native audio and spaced repetition, so 4,080 words actually move into long-term memory.
Start free