Arabic vocabulary
طَبْعَ is how you say “disposition” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَمَعْنَى هَذَا أَنَّ الطَّبْعَ يَتَقَاضَى مَا يَحِبُّ
And the meaning of this is that the natural disposition takes what it loves.
الطَّبْعَ — the natural disposition. A definite noun ('the natural disposition') that is the subject of the emphatic 'that' clause, which is why it takes the accusative ending that this particle imposes. The al- marks it as the known, general human nature. It is what the clause then says does the taking.
From: Patience and the Human Self →OpenArabic teaches words like طَبْعَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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