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▪ eC7 ʔabadan 1 (forever, eternally, very long time) Q 4:122 wa’l-laḏīna ʔāmanū wa-ʕamilū ’l-ṣāliḥāti sa-nudḫilu-hum ǧannātin taǧrī min taḥti-hā ’l-ʔanhāru ḫālidīna fī-hā ʔabadan ‘as for those who believe and do goot deeds, We will admit them into gardens graced with flowing streams; there they are to remain for ever’; 2 (enhancing negation: ever) a) (expressively) Q 9:108 lā taqum fī-hi ʔabadan ‘don’t you ever pray in it’, b) (elliptically) Q 24:17 yaʕiẓu-kum-a ’llāhu ʔan taʕūdū li-miṯli-hī ʔabadan ‘God admonishes you [not] to revert to the like of this [sin] ever’.

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↗ʔBD, ↗ʔabada_1

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↗ʔBD, ↗ʔabada_1.

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► ʔabadan, adv., always, forever; ever, (with neg.) never (in the future), not at all, on no account; (alone, without negation) never! not at all! by no means!
► ʔilà / ʕalà ’l-ʔabad, ʔabada ’l-dahr, adv., forever.
► ʔabada ’l-ʔabad, ʔabada ’l-ʔābidīn, ʔabada ’l-ʔabadiyyaẗ, adv., forever and ever.

► ʔabadī, adj., everlasting, eternal, endless: nsb-adj.
► ʔabadiyyaẗ, n.f., infinite duration, endless time, eternity: n.abstr. in ‑iyyaẗ.

For other items related to ʔabad cf. ↗ʔabada_1.

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