جَوْزِيِal-Jawzi

Example sentences

• فَقَالَ لَهُ الرُّكْنُ أَيْنَ أَنْتَ مِنْ اِبْنِ الْجَوْزِيِ؟

  The Pillar said to him, "Where do you stand regarding the son of al-Jawzi?"

  الْجَوْزِيِ — al-Jawzi. A 'belonging-to' proper name completing the 'son of …' pair as its owner, in the genitive as the second member and lending definiteness back to 'son'. Together they name the figure asked about.

  From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →

• ثُمَّ رَأَى اِبْنُ الْجَوْزِيِ أَنَّ التَّصْنِيفُ فِي فَنِّ الْوَعْظِ يُكْمِلُ مَجَالِسَهُ؛

  Then Ibn al-Jawzi held that writing in the art of preaching complements his sermons.

  الْجَوْزِيِ — al-Jawzi. A family-name built from a place, the kind formed by adding a long '-i' ending that turns a place into 'the one belonging to it'. It completes the 'son of' chain begun by the previous word, and takes the after-a-name ending because it is the thing that 'son of' points to.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →