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Sad-Ba-Ya
to be inclined, yearn, long for, have child-like propensities, feel a youthful propensity.
sabiyyan
boy/lad/male, child, young boy.
saba
vb. (1) impf. 1st. sing. act.
12:33
قَالَ رَبِّ السِّجْنُ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِمَّا يَدْعُونَنِي إِلَيْهِ وَإِلاَّ تَصْرِفْ عَنِّي كَيْدَهُنَّ أَصْبُ إِلَيْهِنَّ وَأَكُنْ مِنَ الْجَاهِلِينَ
Qāla Rabbi As-Sijnu 'Aĥabbu 'Ilayya Mimmā Yad`ūnanī 'Ilayhi Wa 'Illā Taşrif `Annī Kaydahunna 'Aşbu 'Ilayhinna Wa 'Akun Mina Al-Jāhilīna
He said: "My Lord, prison is better to me than what they are inviting me to do. And if You do not turn their plans away from me, I will fall for them and be of the ignorant."
sabiyyan
n.m. acc.
19:12
يَايَحْيَى خُذِ الْكِتَابَ بِقُوَّة ٍ وَآتَيْنَاهُ الْحُكْمَ صَبِيّا ً
Yā Yaĥyá Khudhi Al-Kitāba Biqūwatin Wa 'Ātaynāhu Al-Ĥukma Şabīyāan
"O John, take the Book with confidence." And We gave him authority while in his youth.
19:29
فَأَشَارَتْ إِلَيْهِ قَالُوا كَيْفَ نُكَلِّمُ مَنْ كَانَ فِي الْمَهْدِ صَبِيّا ً
Fa'ashārat 'Ilayhi Qālū Kayfa Nukallimu Man Kāna Fī Al-Mahdi Şabīyāan
So she pointed to him. They said: "How can we talk to someone who is a child in a cradle?"
Hans Wehr
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