Arabic vocabulary
لَبَّيْكَI respond to you in Arabic
لَبَّيْكَ is how you say “I respond to you” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
قَالَ يَا أَبَا هِرٍّ قُلْتُ لَبَّيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ
He said, "O Aba Hirr." I replied, "I respond to you, O Messenger of God."
لَبَّيْكَ — I respond to you. The fixed devotional reply 'at your service / I respond to you', frozen as one expression with 'you' attached at the end. Its set, doubled shape is an old idiom taken whole. Learners meet it as a single ready-made unit.
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