بَسِيطُal-Basit in Arabic

Example sentences

• 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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