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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.

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