Arabic vocabulary
هِشَام is how you say “Hisham” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
كما ملأ ترجمة هشام بن حسان بما يروى عن الحسن،
As he filled the biography of Hisham ibn Hassan with what is narrated by al-Hasan,
هِشَامِ — Hisham. A man's name, the owned half of 'biography of Hisham', in the owned-by ending, and itself head of a 'son of' link with the next name. So it is owned by 'biography' yet anchors the lineage that follows.
From: Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives →وتلك الحكايات ينبغي أن تدخل في ترجمة الحسن لا في ترجمة هشام،
Those stories should be included in the biography of al-Hasan, not in the biography of Hisham.
هِشَامٍ — of Hisham. A name, 'Hisham', the owned half of this second 'biography of...' pairing, in the owned-by ending. It is the person whose entry should not have held the stories.
From: Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives →OpenArabic teaches words like هِشَام through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
Get the app