Arabic vocabulary
نَفَسُself in Arabic
نَفَسُ is how you say “self” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
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.
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