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تَنَطُّع excessive detail in Arabic

تَنَطُّع is how you say “excessive detail” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فالقراء المجودة فيهم تنطع وتحرير زائد يؤدي إلى أن المجود القارىء يبقى مصروف الهمة إلى مراعاة الحروف،

For the exaggerated recitation among them involves excessive detail, leading the refined reciter to focus solely on the articulation of letters,

تَنَطُّعٌ excessive detail

This noun, excessive fussiness, is the delayed subject of the place-fronted clause, in the indefinite nominative with '-un'. Because 'among them' came first, this subject arrives after it as what exists in them.

From When Recitation Breeds Pride

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More example sentences

والتنطع في تجويدها بحيث يشغله ذلك عن تدبر معاني كتاب الله تعالى،

and such excessive articulation in its recitation distracts him from pondering the meanings of the Book of Allah, the Exalted,

وَالتَّنَطُّعُ and excessive articulation

The conjunction adds a noun, the over-fussiness, a verbal noun naming the act as a thing, nominative and definite by 'al-'. It sets up a fresh topic about which the sentence comments, the verbal-noun form letting the action stand as a subject.

From When Recitation Breeds Pride

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