Arabic vocabulary
كَلْبِيُّal-Kalbi in Arabic
كَلْبِيُّ is how you say “al-Kalbi” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَقَالَ إِسْحَاقُ الْكَلْبِيُّ وَعُقَيْلٌ رَمْرَمَةٌ
And Ishaq al-Kalbi and Uqayl said, "murmuring."
الْكَلْبِيُّ — al-Kalbi. A descriptive surname formed from a tribe or origin, working as an adjective-like tag on the name before it. It agrees with that name and carries the prefixed 'the', marking it as the recognised, fixed attribution of this particular narrator.
From: A Night with the Companions →
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