بُد must in Arabic
بُد is how you say “must” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
ومن عاش فيه بالحيل والمكر والدهاء فلا بد له من خزي في الدنيا ومقت في الأخرى وإن تسود هذا،
Whoever lives by deceit, trickery, and cunning will inevitably face disgrace in this world and contempt in the next, even if they gain prominence.
بُدَّ must
This noun ('escape / avoidance') sits in the bare accusative of the category-denying 'no' before it, forming the idiom 'there is no escaping' = 'inevitably'. The stripped ending is the signature of total negation. It pairs with 'for him' and 'from' to say what he cannot avoid.
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وعقيب الخمس ، في أن يصلحك ويوفقك والزم ولا بد آية الكرسي في دبر الصلوات المفروضة ،
And after the five prayers, to guide and aid you, and always adhere to Ayat al-Kursi at the end of the obligatory prayers,
وَلَا بُدَّ and necessarily
This is the bound wa- 'and' plus the la of absolute denial plus a noun, an idiom meaning 'and there is no escaping it, it is a must'. The la wipes out the category of 'escape' to assert necessity; Arabic uses this fixed 'no-escape' phrase to mean 'inevitably'.
والزم الصدق المفرط عن كل بد في كل شيء ،
And adhere to absolute honesty in everything without exception,
بُدٍّ necessity
This indefinite noun, 'escape, exception', sits in the possessed, 'of'-type ending because kull 'every' before it owns it: 'any escape'. After kull the singular indefinite noun in this ending gives the blanket 'without any way out' meaning.