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نَسَبَ attribute in Arabic

نَسَبَ is how you say “attribute” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَظَهَرَ أَنَّ مَنْ أَنْكَرَ كَوْنَهُ رَسُولًا نَبِيًّا فَقَدْ قَدَحَ بِاللَّهِ وَنَقَصَهُ وَنَسَبَهُ إِلَى الْجَهْلِ وَالْعَجْزِ وَالسَّفَهِ

It became clear that whoever denies his being a Messenger and Prophet has indeed defamed God, diminished Him, and attributed ignorance, inability, and folly to Him.

وَنَسَبَهُ and attributed

The wa- adds a third verb with an attached object pronoun, 'and he ascribed Him', the pronoun pointing to God. It governs what is ascribed through the preposition that follows, setting up 'attributed to Him'.

From Signs of the Messenger in Medina

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فمن زعم ذلك لم يقدر رب العالمين قدره ونسبه إلا مالا يليق به تعالى

Whoever claims that has not given the Lord of the worlds His due esteem and has attributed to Him what is not befitting.

وَنَسَبَ and has attributed

The conjunction adds a second past-tense verb, he attributed, again with the doer inside. Coordinating two past verbs under one subject lets Arabic say 'whoever claimed that has neither esteemed nor attributed', keeping the single 'whoever' as the actor of both.

From False Prophets

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