Arabic vocabulary
أَدَبُgood manners in Arabic
أَدَبُ is how you say “good manners” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
الْأَدَبُ عِنْدَ الْأَحْمَقِ كَالْمَاءِ فِي أُصُولِ الْحَنَظَلِ،
Good manners in a fool are like water in the roots of the colocynth.
الْأَدَبُ — good manners. This definite noun is the topic the whole saying is built around, standing in the basic (nominative) shape as the thing being described. Its 'the' marks the quality as a known general thing. Everything after it forms the comment made about it.
From: On Foolishness and Wisdom →
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