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إِسْمَاعِيلُ Isma'il in Arabic

إِسْمَاعِيلُ is how you say “Isma'il” in Arabic.

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ـ قَالَ إِسْمَاعِيلُ يَعْنِي بِالْعَالِيَةِ ـ

Isma'il said, meaning al-Aaliyah.

إِسْمَاعِيلُ Isma'il

This proper name is the doer of the verb just before it, with its final vowel marking it as the subject. Arabic regularly puts the verb ahead of its subject, so the action comes first and only here do we learn who performed it - the reverse of the usual English order.

From Abu Bakr After the Prophet

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وَزَرْعٌ إِسْمَاعِيلُ، وَضِئْضِئِي مَعَدٌ، وَعُنْصُرُ مُضَرٌّ،

and the offspring of Isma'il, the descendants of Ma'ad, and the branch of Mudar.

إِسْمَاعِيلُ Isma'il

A proper name standing as one entry in a parallel list of lineage terms. It keeps the plain subject-style ending that the other list items share, which is how Arabic signals the names all sit on the same grammatical level rather than one owning another.

From The Prophet's Marriage to Khadijah

لَمَّا شَبَّ إِسْمَاعِيلُ

When Ishmael grew up.

إِسْمَاعِيل Ishmael

This is a personal name and the doer of the growing-up verb before it, sitting after its verb in the verb-first order. Its subject-form ending marks it as the one who grew up. Used as a name, it takes ordinary case-marking.

From Stories of Prophetic Judgments

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