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أَب
father /ˈʔab/
nounA1#255 most common
Also: dad, forefather, patriarch
Example sentences
هَذَا أَبِي.
This is my father.
أَبِي مُهَنْدِسٌ.
My father is an engineer.
يَعْمَلُ أَبِي فِي مُسْتَشْفَى كَبِيرٍ.
My father works in a big hospital.
يَعْتَقِدُ كَثِيرٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ أَنَّ آبَاءَهُمْ كَانُوا أَكْثَرَ صَبْرًا.
Many people believe their fathers were more patient.
كَانَ أَبِي يُؤْمِنُ بِأَنَّ التَّعْلِيمَ هُوَ الطَّرِيقُ الوَحِيدُ إِلَى النَّجَاحِ.
My father believed that education was the only path to success.
لَمْ يَكُنْ أَبُوهُ مُجَرَّدَ مُعِيلٍ، بَلْ كَانَ المَرْجِعَ الأَخْلَاقِيَّ الَّذِي تَدُورُ حَوْلَهُ العَائِلَةُ.
His father was not merely a breadwinner; he was the moral anchor around which the family turned.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | أَبٌ | آبَاءٌ |
| Genitive | أَبٍ | آبَاءٍ |
| Accusative | أَبًا | آبَاءً |
| Vocative | يَا أَبَتِ | يَا آبَاءُ |
Word family
أُبُوّةfatherhood, paternity
أَبَوِيّpaternal, fatherly
آبَاءfathers, ancestors
أَبَوَانthe two parents
Etymology
أَب descends from Proto-Semitic *ʾab-, one of the oldest kinship words in the family. It appears across the Semitic languages with little change in form. In Arabic it belongs to the small set called the five nouns, which take a long vowel before possessive and construct endings, as in أَبُو, 'father of.'
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