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أدب المهجر يعبر عن الحنين.
Emigrant literature expresses nostalgia.
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Words from the same root
ء د بArabic words grow from roots. These words share the root of أدب, so their meanings are related: learn them together.
- أدبي literary
- مؤدب well-mannered
- أدباء writers, literati
- الأدب Good manners / Literature
- أدب مقارن comparative literature
- الأدب المقارن comparative literature
- الأدب والاحتشام Decorum and decency
- أدب ما بعد الاستعمار post-colonial literature