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صَّبْرِ patience in Arabic

صَّبْرِ is how you say “patience” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَجَعَلَ سُبْحَانَهُ الإِمَامَةَ فِي الدِّينِ مَنُوطَةً بِالصَّبْرِ وَالْيَقِينِ

And He, exalted be He, made leadership in religion dependent on patience and certainty.

بِالصَّبْرِ by patience

The bi- prefix marks what the dependence rests on ('on/by'), with a definite noun of patience after it. The preposition forces the genitive on that noun and names the first thing leadership hinges upon.

From Patience and God's Help

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More example sentences

وَالصَّبْرِ وَالْجُزْعِ ضِدَّانِ

Patience and agitation are opposites.

وَالصَّبْرِ and the patience

wa- here opens the sentence and marks this noun as the first of a pair being contrasted, with 'the patience' made definite. The conjunction sets up a two-item topic whose shared comment ('opposites') comes at the end.

From Patience and the Human Self

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