عَامِرُAmir

Example sentences

• وَيَرْعَى عَلَيْهِمَا عَامِرُ بْنُ فُهَيْرَةَ مَوْلَى أَبِيِ بَكْرٍ مِنْحَةً مِنْ غَنَمٍ،

  And Amir ibn Fuhayrah, the freedman of Abu Bakr, tends them with a gift of sheep.

  عَامِرُ — Amir. A man's name acting as the doer of the verb 'tends'. As the subject it takes the plain doer ending, and it heads up a long string of name-pieces (son-of, freedman-of...) that all describe this same person.

  From: The Secret Migration →

• فَيَبِيتَانِ فِي رِسْلِهَا حَتَّى يَنْعِقَ بِهَا عَامِرُ بْنُ فُهَيْرَةِ بِغَلَسٍ،

  So they two spent the night in its pen until Amir ibn Fuhayrah cried out with it at dawn.

  عَامِرُ — Amir. The man's name as the delayed subject of 'calls out' (Arabic regularly puts the doer after its verb). It takes the plain doer ending and again heads the 'son of...' chain that follows.

  From: The Secret Migration →

• قَالُوا عَامِرُ بْنُ الْأَكْوَعِ

  They said, "Amir ibn al-Akwa."

  عَامِرُ — Amir. A personal name given in answer, standing as the identified one; its final -u marks it as the subject/named figure, the one the previous question asked about. It is presented as the identity being supplied.

  From: The Martyr's Reward →