Arabic vocabulary
لِلشَّيْخِfor the sheikh
How to say “for the sheikh” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَأَفْرَدْتُ لِلشَّيْخِ دَارًا بِدَرْبِ الدِّيْوَانِ،
And I set aside a house for the sheikh on Diwan Lane.
للشيخ — for the sheikh. A preposition 'for' fused to a definite noun 'the sheikh', forming 'for the sheikh' in one word and naming the beneficiary. The preposition governs the noun into the genitive, and its leading 'the' assimilates in sound into the following letter.
From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →
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