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حَسَب
according to (by the measure of) /ˈħa.sab/
nounA1#489 most common
Also: measure, extent, amount, noble descent, ancestral honor, in accordance with, depending on
Example sentences
نَعمَلُ حَسَبَ الخُطَّةِ.
We work according to the plan.
حَسَبَ الخَريطَةِ، المَتحَفُ قَريبٌ.
According to the map, the museum is nearby.
تَختَلِفُ الأَسعارُ حَسَبَ المَوسِمِ.
Prices vary according to the season.
سَنُوَزِّعُ المَهامَّ بِحَسَبِ خِبرَةِ كُلِّ مُوَظَّفٍ.
We will assign the tasks according to each employee's experience.
عَلى حَسَبِ ما وَرَدَ في التَّقريرِ، تَراجَعَ الإنتاجُ هٰذا العامَ.
According to what the report stated, production fell this year.
كانَ العَرَبُ قَديمًا يُفاخِرونَ بِالحَسَبِ والنَّسَبِ أَكثَرَ مِنَ المالِ.
In olden times the Arabs took more pride in ancestral honor and lineage than in wealth.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | حَسَبٌ (ḥasabun) | أَحْسابٌ (aḥsābun) |
| Genitive | حَسَبٍ (ḥasabin) | أَحْسابٍ (aḥsābin) |
| Accusative | حَسَبًا (ḥasaban) | أَحْسابًا (aḥsāban) |
| Vocative | يا حَسَبُ (yā ḥasabu) | يا أَحْسابُ (yā aḥsābu) |
Word family
حَسَبَ (ḥasaba)to count, reckon
حِساب (ḥisāb)account, calculation
حاسوب (ḥāsūb)computer
مُحاسَبة (muḥāsaba)accounting; holding to account
حَسْب (ḥasb)sufficiency, enough
Etymology
حَسَب comes from the Semitic root ح-س-ب (ḥ-s-b), meaning to count or reckon. The noun first named the measure or amount of a thing, then marked proportion, which gives the common prepositional use 'according to' or 'by the measure of.' A second sense, noble descent, grew from the honors counted to a person's credit and survives in the set phrase الحَسَب والنَّسَب. The same root yields ḥisāb, account, and the modern ḥāsūb, computer.
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