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أَبِيهِ father in Arabic

أَبِيهِ is how you say “father” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ لَمَّا سَارَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ

On the authority of his father, he said: When the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, set out.

أَبِيهِ his father

A noun 'father' with the possessive suffix -hi ('his') attached to its end, so a single word means 'his father'. Because it sits right after the source preposition, the noun is in the genitive; the -hi points back to the narrator just mentioned in the chain.

From Conquest of Mecca Account

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More example sentences

وَمِنْ أَيِّ شَيْءٍ يَنْزِعُ الْوَلَدُ إِلَى أَبِيهِ

And what draws the child to his father?

أَبِيهِ his father

A noun 'father' with an attached 'his', set in the 'of'-type ending by the direction-preposition before it. The suffix supplies the owner and the ending marks it as the goal of the drawing-toward.

From What Was Created First

فَاسْتَغَلَّ مِحْنَةَ أَبِيهِ،

So he took advantage of his father's hardship,

أَبِيهِ his father

This is the owning half of the possessive pair, a 'father' word with an attached 'his' on its end, so it sits in the 'of' (genitive) form. The attached possessor points to the son who is the actor of the sentence. Together with the previous noun it reads 'his father's hardship'.

From Sermons, Wit, and Sorrow

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