Arabic vocabulary
قَصَّابِbutcher
How to say “butcher” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَكَتَبَ إِبْنُ الْقَصَّابِ إِلَى الْخَلِيفَةِ النَّاصِرِ،
So Ibn al-Qassab wrote to the caliph al-Nasir,
الْقَصَّابِ — al-Qassab. A 'belonging-to' surname completing the byname as the owner of the 'son of …' pair, in the genitive as the second member and lending definiteness back to 'son'. Its literal 'butcher' sense survives only as a family label.
From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →
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