OpenArabic Get the app

صَادِقٌ truthful in Arabic

صَادِقٌ is how you say “truthful” in Arabic.

Arabic

English

The audio uses AI voices.

Example sentence

كلما راقبتها في التفاصيل الصغيرة صار أثرُها في القرارات الكبيرة أصدق

The more you watch over it in the small details, the more truthful its impact becomes on major decisions.

أَصْدَقَ more truthful

An elative, 'truer,' the predicate of 'became' — in the -a form, since 'became' forces it there. A diptote, refusing the '-n.' The conclusion: minding intention in small things makes its effect on big decisions TRUER.

From Purifying Your Intentions

The English is machine-translated.

The app’s sheet for the word كِتَاب: book, an audio button, and the root it comes from.

Practise this word in the app

One tap gives you the meaning, a grammar note and audio.

Add the words you don’t know. Practise them with spaced repetition.

Free. No ads. No subscription.

An account is needed in the app.

Download on the App Store Get it on Google Play

More example sentences

أما بعد فإِنك الطالب الصادق، والمريد المحقق

As for what follows, indeed you are the sincere seeker and the true aspirant.

الصَّادِقُ sincere

A describing word, 'sincere', with its own attached 'the' to agree with the definite noun it modifies. Arabic makes an adjective match its noun in definiteness, so the repeated 'the' is the grammar tying the two together.

From Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives

وكان القميص أصدق شاهد أعلى الأمر المختبي

And the shirt was the most truthful witness to the hidden matter.

أَصْدَقَ the most truthful

This is a superlative form, 'most truthful', built on a fixed pattern Arabic uses for 'the most X'. It is the predicate of the verb 'was', so it carries the -a object-style ending that this linking verb assigns to what it says about its subject, and it heads a pairing 'most truthful of witnesses'.

From The Story of Prophet Joseph

قَالَ اِبْنُ صَيَّادٍ يَأْتِينِي صَادِقٌ وَكَاذِبٌ

Ibn Sayyad said, 'A truthful person and a liar come to me.'

صَادِقٌ a truthful person

An indefinite noun standing as the subject of the verb just before it. Having no 'the' attached, it presents this person as one unspecified individual rather than a known one, which is how Arabic flags a brand-new participant entering the sentence.

From A Night with the Companions

وَلَقَدْ ضَمِنَ الْوَفِيُّ الصَّادِقُ لِأَهْلِهِ فِي مُحْكَمِ الْكِتَابِ أَنَّهُ يُوفِيَهُمْ أَجْرَهُمْ بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ

And indeed the Faithful, the Truthful has guaranteed for His own, in the decisive Book, that He will grant them their reward without reckoning.

الصَّادِقُ the Truthful

A second definite title paired with the first, both describing the same one doer. Arabic stacks epithets side by side with matching definiteness rather than joining them with a word like 'and', so they read as one layered name.

From Patience and God's Help

Related words