Arabic vocabulary
How to say “self” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
تَغَلُّبُكِ نَفَسُكِ عَلَى مَا تَظُنُّ،
Your self overcomes you regarding what you suppose,
نَفَسُكِ — your self. A noun carrying the suffix -ki ('your', female), 'your self', meaning the inner soul that drives a person. Within the phrase it names the force doing the overcoming, the active side of the action-noun before it, so the self is what wins out over you.
From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →OpenArabic teaches words like نَفَسُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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