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مَرْءٌ person in Arabic

مَرْءٌ is how you say “person” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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.

المَرْءُ one

'the person / one,' a generic noun for any individual — the subject of 'keep to' (the -u). It comes after its verb, the normal order; the everyman who should hold to humility.

From Mercy in Disagreement

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More example sentences

فَلْيَكُنْ الْمَرْءُ مَعَ أَهْلِ طَاعَةِ اللَّهِ

Then let a person be among the people who obey Allah.

الْمَرْءُ the person

A literary noun 'the person' wearing 'the', used generically for 'a person in general'. The definite article here does not point to one specific man; Arabic often uses 'the' for the whole class, where English would drop it.

From Silence and Supplication

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