شَيْخَان elderly in Arabic
شَيْخَان is how you say “elderly” in Arabic.
Arabic
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Example sentence
قال رجل منهم اللهم كان لي أبوان شيخان كبيران، وكنت لا أغبق قبلهما أهلاً ولا مالاً
One of them said: 'O Allah, I had elderly parents, and I never provided drink to my family or wealth before them.'
شَيْخَانِ elderly
This is a dual adjective describing the two parents, and its dual ending agrees with the dual noun it follows. Arabic makes a describing word echo its noun's 'two-ness', so the form itself signals it qualifies a pair, not one or many.
The English is machine-translated.
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