Arabic vocabulary

نَزْهًاmodest in Arabic

نَزْهًا is how you say “modest” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

كَانَ اِبْنُ الْجَوْزِيِّ أَنِيقًا فِي مَظْهَرِهِ نَزْهًا نَظِيفًا، مُتَنَعِّمًا فِي مَعِيشَتِهِ،
Ibn al-Jawzi was elegant in his appearance, modest and clean, and enjoyed the comforts of his life,
نَزْهًا — modest. A further adjective in the run of descriptions, 'modest', in the object-style case set by the 'was' verb governing the whole series. Arabic lets one copula govern a string of predicate adjectives, each taking that same case.
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