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كِتَابُ book in Arabic

كِتَابُ is how you say “book” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

قَالَ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ عَنْ كِتَابِ الْفُنُونِ وَهَذَا الْكِتَابُ مِئَتَا مُجَلَّدٍ،

He, may God have mercy on him, said about the Book of the Arts: This book consists of two hundred volumes.

الْكِتَابُ the book

A definite noun with al- ('the'), the subject the quotation comments on, paired with the demonstrative before it as 'this book'. It stands in the nominative as the topic of a verbless 'this book is...' statement. The following count is its predicate.

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