إِسْحَاقIshaq

Example sentences

• 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'.

  From: Stories That Soften the Heart →