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نَصِيب
share, portion, lot (also: fate, destiny) /naˈsˤiːb/
nounB2#4413 most common
Also: fate, destiny, allotment
Example sentences
هذا نَصِيبِي.
This is my share.
أخذتُ نَصِيبِي من الحلوى.
I took my share of the sweets.
لكل واحد نَصِيب في هذا العمل.
Everyone has a share in this work.
كان نَصِيبها من الميراث كبيرًا.
Her share of the inheritance was large.
يقولون إن الزواج نَصِيب.
They say marriage is fate.
تُوزَّع الأنصِبة على الورثة بالتساوي وفق القانون.
The shares are distributed equally among the heirs according to law.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | نَصِيبٌ | أَنْصِبَةٌ |
| Genitive | نَصِيبٍ | أَنْصِبَةٍ |
| Accusative | نَصِيباً | أَنْصِبَةً |
| Vocative | يا نَصِيبُ | يا أَنْصِبَةُ |
Word family
نَصَبَto erect, set up
مَنْصِبpost, official positionانتَصَبَto stand upright, become erect
نُصْبmonument, statueEtymology
Naṣīb comes from the Arabic root n-ṣ-b, whose base verb naṣaba means to set up or erect. The pattern faʿīl here carries a passive sense: something that has been set up or fixed in place for a person, which shifted to mean the portion allotted to someone. From there it broadened to cover fate or destiny, the share that life sets aside for a person.
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