بَسِيطُ al-Basit in Arabic
بَسِيطُ is how you say “al-Basit” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَقَدْ كَانَ شُعْبَةُ يُحَدِّثُ، فَإِذَا رَأَى الْمَزِيدُ النَّحْوِيُّ قَالَ إِنَّهُ أَبُو زَيْدٍ الْبَسِيطُ
And indeed Shu'ba used to narrate, and whenever al-Mazid the grammarian saw him, he would say: Indeed he is Abu Zayd al-Basit:
الْبَسِيطُ al-Basit:
A describing word kept as a fixed epithet of the name, with al- making it definite to match. Like other Arabic adjectives it follows the noun it describes and agrees in definiteness, so it trails and qualifies the personal name.
The English is machine-translated.

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