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آباء
fathers /ʔaːˈbaːʔ/
nounB1#2208 most common
Also: ancestors, forefathers, parents
Example sentences
آباؤنا يعملون كثيرًا.
Our fathers work a lot.
الآباء يحبون أبناءهم.
Fathers love their children.
يجب أن نحترم آباءنا وأمهاتنا.
We must respect our fathers and mothers.
ترك لنا الآباء إرثًا كبيرًا من القيم.
Our forefathers left us a great inheritance of values.
كان آباؤنا الأوائل يواجهون صعوبات لا نتخيلها اليوم.
Our early forefathers faced difficulties we cannot imagine today.
تتناقل الأجيال حكمة الآباء والأجداد جيلًا بعد جيل دون أن تندثر.
The generations pass down the wisdom of fathers and grandfathers from one generation to the next without it fading away.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | أَبٌ | آبَاءٌ |
| Genitive | أَبٍ | آبَاءٍ |
| Accusative | أَبًا | آبَاءً |
| Vocative | يَا أَبَتِ | يَا آبَاءُ |
Word family
أبfather
أبوّةfatherhood
أبويpaternal, fatherly
أجدادgrandfathers, ancestors
Etymology
The word is the broken plural of أب (ab), meaning father. The root is common across the Semitic languages, where it carried the sense of father in the earliest records. The final hamza reflects a long-standing feature of the plural pattern.
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