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كِبْرُ arrogance in Arabic

كِبْرُ is how you say “arrogance” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فتخضع الْأَعْنَاق وتنكسر النُّفُوس وتخشع الْأَصْوَات ويذوب الْكبر كَمَا يذوب الْملح فِي المَاء،

So necks are humbled, souls are broken, voices become subdued, and arrogance melts like salt in water.

الْكِبْرُ arrogance

Subject of 'melts', nominative, after its verb — pride. What dissolves in the presence of majesty.

From Reflecting on God's Names

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الْكِبْرُ مِنْهُ مَأْمُونٌ

Arrogance is safe from him.

الْكِبْرُ arrogance

Marked definite by 'al-', naming the known vice as the topic the sentence comments on, so it sits as the subject of a verbless 'X is Y' statement. Arabic forms such equational sentences with no verb 'is'; the subject simply faces its predicate. This noun is the thing being characterised.

From On Reason and Temptation

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