Arabic vocabulary
تَكَبَّرَto be arrogant in Arabic
تَكَبَّرَ is how you say “to be arrogant” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
ما تأتي عبرة مثل أن أباك وأمك ماتا،
No lesson strikes home like the fact that your father and your mother have died.
تكبر — were arrogant. A verbal noun, 'arrogance', used to stand for the people marked by it, 'those who were arrogant'. A verbal noun names the trait as a thing; here it characterizes the targeted group.
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