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أَدَبُ good manners in Arabic

أَدَبُ is how you say “good manners” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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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