Arabic vocabulary
عَقِيلِAqil in Arabic
عَقِيلِ is how you say “Aqil” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَمِنْ جُمْلَةِ مَا قَرَأَ أَجْزَاءً كَثِيرَةً مِنْ كِتَابِ الْفُنُونِ لِابْنِ عَقِيلِ،
Among the things he read were many sections of Ibn Aqil's Book of Arts.
عقيل — Aqil. A proper name completing the author's identity after the 'son-of' element, and in the genitive because the authorship li- governs the whole name. It is the second part of the patronymic. Together they name the book's author.
From: A Life of Reading and Writing →
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