Arabic vocabulary
بَاعِثٌdriving force
How to say “driving force” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَقِيلَ الصَّبْرُ ثَبَاتٌ بَاعِثٌ الْعَقْلِ وَالدِّينِ فِي مُقَابَلَةِ بَاعِثِ الْهَوَى وَالشَّهْوَةِ
It is said that patience is the steadiness that serves as the driving force of reason and religion in opposing the impulses of desire and lust.
بَاعِثٌ — driving force. An active participle ('driving force/prompter'), a noun-like form naming the doer of an action, here the agent that drives. It describes the 'steadiness' just before it, picturing it as actively prompting. It then heads an 'of' link with 'reason' next.
From: Patience and the Human Self →
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