Arabic vocabulary
تَواضُع is how you say “humility” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
من أدبِه أن يلزمَ المرءُ تواضعًا معرفيًّا يرى الدليلَ، ويدركُ حدودَ فهمه، ويستحضر أن المقاصدَ أوسعُ من جزئيةٍ واحدة
Part of its etiquette is that a person maintains intellectual humility: seeing the evidence, recognizing the limits of his understanding, and remembering that the objectives are broader than a single issue.
تَواضُعًا — humility. A reciprocal-pattern action-noun, 'humbling-oneself / humility,' in the -a form as object of 'keep to,' indefinite. The thing one must cling to — and a specific kind, as the adjective next says: humility about one's KNOWLEDGE.
From: Mercy in Disagreement →OpenArabic teaches words like تَواضُع through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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