Example
حرّض بنيك على الآداب في الصغر كيما تقر بهم عيناك في الكبر.
Instill good manners in your children when they are young that you may be proud of them when they grow older.
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Words from the same root
ء د بArabic words grow from roots. These words share the root of الأدب, so their meanings are related: learn them together.
- أدب literature
- أدبي literary
- مؤدب well-mannered
- أدباء writers, literati
- أدب مقارن comparative literature
- الأدب المقارن comparative literature
- الأدب والاحتشام Decorum and decency
- أدب ما بعد الاستعمار post-colonial literature