Arabic vocabulary
مَزِيدُal-Mazid in Arabic
مَزِيدُ is how you say “al-Mazid” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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:
الْمَزِيدُ — al-Mazid. The al- makes this proper name definite as a fixed title. It stands as the doer of the seeing verb before it, so it serves as the subject of 'saw', identifying who did the looking.
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