Arabic vocabulary

جِدِّseriousness in Arabic

جِدِّ is how you say “seriousness” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

الَّذِي يَكْسِبُهَا نَشَاطًا لِلْجِدِّ فَكَأَنَّهَا مِنَ الْجِدِّ لَمْ تَزَلْ،
which gives it a zeal for seriousness, so that it seems to have always been serious.
الْجِدِّ — seriousness. The al- makes this definite, 'the' seriousness, the specific abstract quality. Sitting after the preposition, it takes the genitive ending that prepositions impose, marking it as the category in the 'as if from seriousness' phrase.
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