Arabic vocabulary
إِسْحَاق is how you say “Ishaq” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
وقال أبو إسحاق الرجع المطر لأنه يجيء ويرجع ويتكرر
Abu Ishaq said: The returning is the rain because it comes and returns repeatedly.
إِسْحَاقَ — Ishaq. The owner half of the name pairing, completing 'father of Ishaq'. As the possessor it takes the genitive ending; here it shows the special non-tanwin genitive of a diptote (a name that resists the usual indefinite endings).
From: Oaths of Provision →وقال أبو إسحاق الرجع المطر لأنه يجيء ويرجع ويتكرر
Abu Ishaq said that 'returning' is rain because it comes and returns and repeats.
إِسْحَاقَ — Ishaq. The owner half of the name pairing, 'father of Ishaq'. As the possessor it takes the genitive ending, shown here in the special non-tanwin form of a name that resists indefinite endings.
From: Signs of Resurrection →وقال أبو إسحاق الرجع المطر لأنه يجيء ويرجع ويتكرر
Abu Ishaq said the return is rain because it comes and goes repeatedly.
إِسْحَاقَ — Ishaq. This is the proper name closing 'father of Ishaq', sitting in the genitive of the name-pair. It cannot take normal case-shifting freely because, as a foreign-origin name, it resists full inflection; it stays in this fixed genitive shape as the owner of the kunya.
From: Oaths That Seal the Truth →وعن محمد بن إسحاق قال
And from Muhammad ibn Ishaq, he said
إِسْحَاقَ — Ishaq. The owned father's name in the lineage, in the genitive; adjacency builds the 'of' link with no separate word.
From: Stories That Soften the Heart →وقال ابن إسحاق كان الزهري يحدث ثم يقول
And Ibn Ishaq said Al-Zuhri used to narrate, then say
إِسْحَاقَ — Ishaq. The owned father's name in the lineage, in the genitive; adjacency builds 'son of Ishaq'.
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