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جِبْرِيل Gabriel in Arabic

جِبْرِيل is how you say “Gabriel” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

خَبَّرَنِي بِهِنَّ آنِفَا جِبْرِيلُ

Gabriel told me about them a short while ago.

جِبْرِيلُ Gabriel

The proper name supplying the doer of the informing verb that opened the sentence: it was Gabriel who told. Although it comes last, it answers 'who' for the verb, a normal verb-first ordering in Arabic.

From What Was Created First

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قَالَ فَإِنَّهُ جِبْرِيلُ أَتَاكُمْ يُعَلِّمُكُمْ دِينَكُمْ

He said, 'Indeed, it was Gabriel who came to teach you your religion.'

جِبْرِيلُ Gabriel

A proper name standing as the predicate of the emphatic 'indeed it was...' clause, in the nominative as the identity being revealed. Its plain ending with no tanwin is the sign of a name that resists that marker. It names the visitor as the angel.

From When Gabriel Came to Teach

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