Arabic vocabulary
How to say “be patient” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَقَالَ تَعَالَىٰ وَإِنْ تَصْبِرُوا وَتَتَّقُوا لَا يَضُرُّكُمْ كَيْدُهُمْ شَيْئًا إِنَّ اللَّهَ بِمَا يَعْمَلُونَ مُحِيطٌ
Allah, the Exalted, said: If you are patient and are conscious of God, their plotting will not harm you at all. Indeed, Allah encompasses what they do.
تَصْبِرُوا — you are patient. A present-tense verb with 'you (plural)' in its ending, standing as the condition's act ('if you are patient'). Its ending is clipped because the conditional particle puts it in the conditional mood.
From: Patience and God's Help →OpenArabic teaches words like تَصْبِرُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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