Arabic vocabulary
نَصَب is how you say “toil” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
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.
From: Repentance and Resolve →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.
From: Repentance and Resolve →OpenArabic teaches words like نَصَب through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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