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nabi

[ nah-bee ]

noun

, Islam.
  1. a prophet.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of nabi1

First recorded in 1875–80, nabi is from the Arabic word nabī

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Example Sentences

A protest was held at Nabi Saleh last Tuesday as well, but that time, live fire was used.

The story about Nabi Saleh was framed in the context of a Palestinian village testing “the limits of unarmed resistance.”

"Oh Allah, destroy the Jews and their supporters," says Futouh Abd Al-Nabi Mansour, according to the MEMRI translation.

Adib Khan, the principal of Ghulam Nabi Charkhi school in Tapa e Nader Khan, gives his own wages to keep his school going.

The root of the Hebrew word for prophet—Nabi, said to mean a bubbling up—confirms this view.

He had also been the nabi of Moses when the two went to Pharaoh with their demand on behalf of Israel.

The words that relate to him carefully distinguish between his illumination and that of the nabi.

So far as the word nabi designates all, they are all of one order.

The word Nabi, 'prophet,' was in use in the time of Moses, or Abraham.

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