Arabic vocabulary
How to say “fixed” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
لذلك وُضِعَتِ التسميةُ في مواضعَ ثابتة على الطعام، وعند الدخول والخروج، وعلى السكين والقلم ولوحة المفاتيح؛ لتتعلّم أنّ العملَ يبدأ بالله وينتهي إليه
Thus, naming was placed in fixed locations: over food, when entering and exiting, over the knife, pen, and keyboard; to teach that every action begins with Allah and ends with Him.
ثَابِتَةٍ — fixed. 'fixed', adjective on 'places', agreeing as genitive and showing the ordinary -in ending its noun could not. So the adjective's case ending here is what makes the genitive visible.
From: Remembrance That Reshapes the Heart →السرّ أن الثِّقَال في الميزان من طبيعة الحقّ؛ فهو ثابتٌ مُحكَم، والباطل خفيفٌ مُتلاشي، وإن بدا ضخمًا في أعين الناس
The secret is that the weight in the balance stems from the nature of truth; it is firm and solid, while falsehood is light and vanishing, even if it appears large in people's eyes.
ثَابِتٌ — firm. 'firm, fixed', nominative indefinite — the predicate, 'it is firm'. The bare adjective completes 'X is Y'.
From: Small Deeds, Great Reward →OpenArabic teaches words like ثَابِتٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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