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نَصَب toil in Arabic

نَصَب is how you say “toil” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَذَلِكَ شَيْء لَا تَعب عَلَيْك فِيهِ وَلَا نصب وَلَا معاناة

And this is something that does not burden you with effort, nor toil, nor hardship.

نَصَبٌ toil

A second negated noun, 'strain', heaped beside the first. Arabic often stacks near-synonyms under repeated negation to drive home that there is utterly none of it.

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More example sentences

وَلَيْسَ للجوارح فِي هذَيْن نصب وَلَا تَعب

And for the limbs, there is no toil or hardship in these two tasks.

نَصَبٌ toil

The noun whose existence is denied, 'strain', left indefinite to mean 'any at all'. As the thing that 'is not there', it carries the indefinite subject ending.

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