عَلِيٌّ Ali in Arabic
عَلِيٌّ is how you say “Ali” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وقال علي بن أبي طالب روحوا القلوب واطلبوا لها طرف الحكمة فإنها تمل كما تمل الأبدان
Ali ibn Abi Talib said, 'Refresh the hearts and seek for them a portion of wisdom, for they get weary as bodies get weary.'
عَلِيُّ Ali
This is the doer of 'said', taking the -u subject ending. Here it begins a man's full name, so the words after it stack on as 'son of...' to identify him.
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More example sentences
قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ هُوَ عَلِيٌّ
I said, "No." He said, "He is Ali."
عَلِيٌّ Ali
A proper name serving as the predicate of the equational sentence, 'he is Ali'; placed after the subject pronoun with no 'is', it completes the identification. The naming itself is the statement.
فَمَرَّ بِهِ عَلِيٌّ فَقَالَ
Then Ali passed by him and said.
عَلِيٌّ Ali
A proper name standing as the subject doing the passing, its ending in the subject case, named after the verb that already carried a placeholder 'he'.