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بُدٌّ avoiding in Arabic

بُدٌّ is how you say “avoiding” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وإذا كانت جميع الحسنات لا بد فيها من شيئين

And if all good deeds must include two things:

بُدَّ must

Literally 'no avoiding', this noun sits in the accusative with no tanwin under the 'no' of absolute denial — the pairing means 'there is no way around it', i.e. it is unavoidable. That accusative-without-tanwin shape is the grammatical signature of this 'there is none at all' pattern.

From Deeds for God Alone

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More example sentences

فَإِذَا لَا بُدَّ مِنْ ذَلِكَ

If that is unavoidable.

بُدَّ necessity

The noun in the fixed expression 'there is no way out', held in the object case by the absolute 'no' before it. The pairing yields 'unavoidable', a meaning that lives in the idiom rather than in either word alone.

From Silence and Supplication

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