الأَصْمَعِيِّal-Asma'i

Example sentences

• وَعَنْ الأَصْمَعِيِّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الرَّشِيدَ يَقُولُ النَّوَادِرُ تَشْحَذُ الأَذْهَانَ وَتَفْتُقُ الآذَانَ

  And from al-Asma'i: I heard al-Rashid say, "Anecdotes sharpen minds and quicken ears."

  الأَصْمَعِيِّ — al-Asma'i. The al- makes this proper name definite as a fixed name. Sitting after the preposition, it takes the genitive ending that prepositions impose, marking it as the source the report is traced to.

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