مصيبة

Derived from the feminine form of the active participle of the verb أَصَابَ (ʔaṣāba).

• IPA^(key): /mu.sˤiː.ba/

مُصِيبَة • (muṣība) f (plural مَصَائِب (maṣāʔib) or مُصِيبَات (muṣībāt))

1. calamity, affliction, misfortune, disaster

   Synonyms: نَازِلَة (nāzila), دَاهِيَة (dāhiya), نَائِبَة (nāʔiba), بَلِيَّة (baliyya), رَزِيَّة (raziyya); see also Thesaurus:مصيبة

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:155-156:

     وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُم بِشَيْءٍ مِنَ ٱلْخَوْفِ وَٱلْجُوعِ وَنَقْصٍ مِنَ ٱلْأَمْوَٰلِ وَٱلْأَنْفُسِ وَٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ وَبَشِّرِ الصَّابِرِينَ الَّذِينَ إِذَا أَصَابَتْهُم مُصِيبَةٌ قَالُوا إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ

     walanabluwannakum bišayʔin mina l-ḵawfi wal-jūʕi wanaqṣin mina l-ʔamwāli wal-ʔanfusi waṯ-ṯamarāti wabašširi ṣ-ṣābirīna llaḏīna ʔiḏā ʔaṣābathum muṣībatun qālū ʔinnā lillahi waʔinnā ʔilayhi rājiʕūna

     And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient, who, when disaster strikes them, say, "Indeed we belong to Allāh, and indeed to Him we will return."

   • a. 965, Al-Mutanabbi, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     بِذَا قَضَتِ الْأَيَّامُ مَا بَيْنَ أَهْلِهَا / مَصَائِبُ قَوْمٍ عِنْدَ قَوْمٍ فَوَائِدُ

     biḏā qaḍati l-ʔayyāmu mā bayna ʔahlihā / maṣāʔibu qawmin ʕinda qawmin fawāʔidu

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• مَصَائِبُ قَوْمٍ عِنْدَ قَوْمٍ فَوَائِدُ (maṣāʔibu qawmin ʕinda qawmin fawāʔidu, “one man's meat is another man's poison”, saying)

• Maltese: msiba
• → Azerbaijani: müsibət
• → Hindi: मुसीबत (musībat)
• → Indonesian: musibah
• Kurdish:

  → Central Kurdish: موسیبەت (musîbet)

  → Northern Kurdish: musîbet

• → Malayalam: മുസീവത്ത് (musīvattŭ)
• → Persian: مصیبت (mosibat)
  • → Bengali: মুসিবত (musībat)
  • → Hindi: मुसीबत (musībat)
  • → Urdu: مصیبت (musībat)
    • → Phalura: musibát (musībat)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مصیبت
  • → Turkish: musibet
  • → Crimean Tatar: müsibet
• → Swahili: msiba
• → Uyghur: مۇسىبەت (musibet)
• → Uzbek: musibat
• → Yoruba: mùsííbà

From Arabic مُصِيبَة (muṣība).

• IPA^(key): /mu.sˤiː.ba/, (dated) /msˤiː.ba/

مصيبة • (muṣība) f (plural مصيبات (muṣībāt) or مصايب (mṣāyib))

1. calamity, affliction, misfortune, disaster