Arabic vocabulary
لِلشَّيْخِ is how you say “for the sheikh” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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 →OpenArabic teaches words like لِلشَّيْخِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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