Arabic vocabulary
مَبْدَأِstart
How to say “start” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
كما أقسم في أول السورة على حال الانسان في مبدئه ومعاده
As He swore at the beginning of the surah about the state of man at the beginning and end.
مَبْدَئِهِ — his beginning. A noun with -hi (his) attached, so one word means 'his beginning'. The attached pronoun is the owner reaching back to man; the whole sits in the genitive after its preposition, marking the start of human existence.
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