باب section in Arabic
باب is how you say “section” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَلَمَّا كَانَ هَذَا هُوَ الْغَالِبُ ذَكَرْتُ فِي هَذَا الْبَابِ ذَمَّ الْهَوَى وَالشَّهَوَاتِ مُطْلَقًا
Therefore, since this is prevalent, I mentioned in this chapter the condemnation of desires and lusts in general.
الْبَابِ chapter
'al-' = 'the'; the noun pointed to by 'this' (genitive after 'fi').
The English is machine-translated.
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More example sentences
أنه لما كان بابُ المناظرة في الرد والقبول مُتَّسِعًا، وكل واحدٍ من المتناظرين في الاستدلال والجواب يرسل عِنانه في الاحتجاج، ومنه ما يكون صوابًا ومنه ما يكون خطأً،
that since the field of debate in rejection and acceptance was wide, and each debater in reasoning and answering would let loose his reins in argumentation, some of it being correct and some incorrect,
بَابُ the door
'the door, field of', nominative as the subject of 'kana', head of an 'of' pairing with 'debate' — a metaphor for the open arena of disputation.
وقيل وهو الصواب إنه اسم فاعل على بابه
And it is said, and this is correct, that it is an active participle in its original sense.
بَابِهِ its original sense
A noun with -hi (its) attached, literally 'its door', an idiom meaning 'its proper category / normal pattern'. The attached -hi refers to the participle; the phrase says it works in its ordinary, expected sense, not an exceptional one.