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أَثْبَتَ affirm in Arabic

أَثْبَتَ is how you say “affirm” in Arabic.

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والأصولي الذي أثبت بعض الصفات ونفى بعضها وتأول في أماكن يقولون متناقضا،

And the theologian who affirms some attributes, denies others, and interprets in certain places, they call him contradictory.

أَثْبَتَ he affirmed

A Form IV verb ('affirmed / established'), past, subject 'he' inside, taking the object that follows. The Form IV pattern often makes a root transitive-causative, here 'set down as real'. It describes him accepting some of God's attributes.

From Scripture Over Speculation

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مد الأرض وأثبتها بالجبال إثباتا،

He spread out the earth and firmly anchored it with mountains,

وَأَثْبَتَهَا and He anchored it

The 'and' joins a second verb, and beneath it a past-tense causative verb means 'He fixed / anchored it firm', with its 'he' subject built in and an attached 'it' object pointing back to the earth. So one word holds the doer, the action, and the earth as what was made firm.

From Death and Decree

فيه من حكم أو خبر أو أثبت ما نفاه أو نفي ما أثبته وهو عالم بذلك أو يشك في شئ من ذلك

It contains a ruling or a report, or he affirmed what he had denied, or denied what he had affirmed; he is aware of that, or doubts something of it.

أَثْبَتَ he affirmed

A past-tense verb 'affirmed' with the 'he' doer built in. It names an offence: asserting as true what one had previously denied. The doer is the unspecified person carried through the passage's condition.

From Honoring the Quran

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