Arabic vocabulary
طَالِبُ is how you say “seeker” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَلَمَّا كَانَ طَالِبُ الصِّرَاطِ الْمُسْتَقِيمِ طَالِبَ أَمْرٍ أَكْثَرُ النَّاسِ نَاكِبُونَ عَنْهُ،
And when the seeker of the straight path was a seeker of a matter from which most people turn away,
طَالِبُ — seeker. An active participle used as a noun, 'the seeker', and the subject of 'was'; its ending marks that subject role. It heads a possessive pair with the following noun, 'the seeker OF the path'. The participle names a type of person as a standing description.
From: Choosing Good Companions →OpenArabic teaches words like طَالِبُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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