Arabic vocabulary
حَسْبُsufficient in Arabic
حَسْبُ is how you say “sufficient” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَمَن يَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى اللَّهِ فَهُوَ حَسْبُهُ
And whoever places his trust in God, He is sufficient for him.
حَسْبُهُ — sufficient for him. A noun 'sufficiency/enough' with a pronoun fused onto its end, meaning 'his sufficiency', i.e. enough for him. The attached pronoun points back to the trusting person, marking him as the one for whom God suffices. It serves as the predicate completing 'He is enough for him'.
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