Arabic vocabulary
كِفَايَةٌ is how you say “sufficiency” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَهُوَ الْفَقْرُ اللَّازِمُ فَيَرُدُّكَ عَنْ غِنَى الْكِفَايَةِ
And it is persistent poverty that turns you away from the wealth of sufficiency.
الْكِفَايَةِ — of sufficiency. The noun 'sufficiency', made definite by al- ('the'), the owned half of 'the wealth of sufficiency', so it takes the 'of' (genitive) ending with no separate word for 'of'. It names the contented self-sufficiency that persistent poverty drives one away from.
From: Charity and Stinginess →OpenArabic teaches words like كِفَايَةٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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