الْمَأْمُونِal-Ma'mun

Example sentences

• وَحَكَى غَيْرُ الْمَأْمُونِ أَنَّ السَّجَّانُ فَطِنَ لِإِرْتِفَاقِهِ بِالْمِصْبَاحِ فِي تَسْخِينِ الْمَاءِ،

  And another narrator, not al-Ma'mun, reported that the jailer noticed his staying close by the lamp in heating the water.

  الْمَأْمُونِ — al-Ma'mun. This proper name is the owner half of the 'other-than...' pairing and so wears the genitive form. Arabic builds the 'someone besides X' phrase by setting 'other-than' directly against the name in the genitive, with no linking word. The name supplies who the unnamed narrator is being contrasted with.

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