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طَلَبِ seeking in Arabic

طَلَبِ is how you say “seeking” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَنَأَى بِي فِي طَلَبِ شَيْءٍ يَوْمًا،

Then he went away from me one day to look for something.

طَلَبِ seeking

A verb-derived noun naming the act of seeking, held in the genitive by the preposition before it. It heads a 'seeking of' pairing with the next noun, owning it, so together they spell out what was being looked for.

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وَلَا يَتَبَرَّمُ مِنْ طَلَبِ الْحَوَائِجِ مِنْ قِبَلِهِ

And he does not become annoyed by the asking of needs from him.

طَلَبِ the asking

A verbal noun: it freezes the act of asking into a thing the preposition can govern, which is why it sits in the genitive. It heads a possessive pairing with 'the needs' that follows, 'the asking of needs'. Turning the verb into a noun lets Arabic treat the whole action as the source of annoyance.

From On Reason and Temptation

وَقِيلَ يَعِدُكُمْ الْفَقْرُ فِي طَلَبِ فَوْقَ الْكَفَافِ

And it was said: poverty will befall you when you seek beyond what suffices.

طَلَبِ seeking

An action-noun, 'seeking', naming the act rather than a thing. Governed by the preceding 'in', it takes the 'of' (genitive) ending, and it heads into the next words to mean 'seeking beyond sufficiency'. Arabic packs a whole 'when you seek' idea into this single noun.

From Charity and Stinginess

وَمُعْظَمُهَا مِنْ قِبَلِ طَلَبِهِمْ لِلرِّئَاسَةِ،

And most of it is from the part of their pursuit of leadership,

طَلَبِهِمْ their pursuit

A verbal noun ('the act of seeking') with the owner -hum ('their') fastened to its end, so one word names both the act and whose it is. As the owned tail of the 'on the part of...' chain, it carries the 'of' ending and identifies whose pursuit is being blamed.

From Vigilance Against Worldly Deception

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