Today, we are going to go on a journey to the depths of an Arabic Dictionary to discover some of its secrets. We will look up the root verb  أدب  and explore some of its derivatives.

* أَدَبَ    v. [T.] = (1) to invite people to food; e.g.. أَدَبَ محمدٌ القومَ  

*  أَدْبْ    n.  [U.] = the act of inviting people to food; e.g. أَدَبَ محمدٌ القومَ أَدْبْاً  

* المَأْدُبَةُ   n. [C.] = food made for an invitation; e.g. صنعَ محمدٌ مأدبةً شهيةً   

* آدِبُ  n. . [C.] = the person who prepares and invites for a مأدبة

*  أَدَبَ   v. [T.] = (2) to collect people or gather them around something.  

* أَدَبَ    v.  [T.] = (3) to well-breed someone / to raise someone on good manners;

                               e.g. أَدَبَنى والدي على الأخلاق  

*  أَدَّبَ   v. [T.] = to teach someone good manners / or / to punish someone for a bad behavior.

* تَأدَّبَ    v. [I;T]  = (بـِ ) to follow someone’s good example; e.g. تأدب محمدٌ بأدبِ القرآن 

*  مُؤَدَّبٌ   adj. = polite / well-educated; e.g. محمدٌ ولدٌ مُؤدّبٌ   

* المُؤَدِّبُ   n. [C.] = teacher / instructor / educator / person hired or chosen to educate someone.

*  التَأديبُ   n. [U.] = التهذيب = education / teaching rules or good manners or literature

 *  مَجلسُ التأديب  = a special court for questioning and punishing government employees

* أَدُبَ   v. [I.] = (1) to stick to good manners; to be polite;  

                            (2) to be good at arts and literature, e.g. أَدُبَ محمدٌ   

* أَدِيبٌ  n [C.] = a person who is good at literature (author/writer … etc.); e.g. محفوظ أديبٌ مشهور

* أُدَباءٌ  n.pl. = plural of أديب

* الأَدَبُ   n. [C.] = literature / qualities needed for a career like that of a judge or an author;

                               e.g. الأدب العربي

* الآدَابْ    n. pl. = plural of الأدب  

* الآدَابُ العامةُ   = Traditions / Accepted behavior / Ethics of research.

* أدَبِيّ    adj. = literary / not materialistic; e.g. النقد الأدبي  = Literary criticism.

* قيمة أدبية  n. = said when you praise someone for his/her literary knowledge;

                            e.g.     كان محفوظ قيمةً أدبيةً كبيرة    

أدب / أديب / أدباء / الأدب / الآداب / مأدبة / مؤدب

 

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