Arabic vocabulary
نَبَأٌa report in Arabic
نَبَأٌ is how you say “a report” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَهُوَ بَعْدَ هَذَا وَاللَّهِ لَهُ نَبَأٌ عَظِيمٌ وَخَطَرٌ جَلِيلٌ
And after this, by God, for him is a great report and a weighty, grave matter.
نَبَأٌ — a report. An indefinite noun (no 'the') naming the great tiding, serving as the thing he 'has' in the possession frame set up before it. Being indefinite keeps it open and weighty, 'a great matter', the new information the clause delivers.
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