Arabic vocabulary

الطَنْطَاوِيal-Tantawi in Arabic

الطَنْطَاوِي is how you say “al-Tantawi” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

وَقَدْ لَخَّصَهَا الشَّيْخُ عَلِيُّ الْطَنْطَاوِي فِي مُقَدِّمَةِ طَبْعَتِهِ لِصَيْدِ الْخَاطِرِ فَقَالَ
Sheikh Ali al-Tantawi had summarized it in the preface to his edition of Sayd al-Khatir and said:
الْطَنْطَاوِي — al-Tantawi. A 'belonging-to' surname formed from a place, identifying the man's origin and still describing the same subject. Such relation-adjectives are built by adding a fixed ending to a place or tribe name.
From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →

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