إِسْمَاعِيلIsmail

Example sentences

• ثم قال اللهم إني أسألك كما سألك إبراهيم وإسماعيل، فاجعل أفئدة من الناس تهوي إليهم

  Then he said: O Allah, I ask you as Ibrahim and Ismail asked you, so direct the hearts of the people towards them.

  وَإِسْمَاعِيلُ — and Ismail. The wa- joins this as the second doer of 'asked'; it too takes the -u subject ending, so the pair share the verb. The plural sense lives in the two names linked by 'and'.

  From: Bedouin Manners →

• فقيل له إن إبراهيم وإسماعيل دعوا بأن تهوي أفئدة الناس إلى هذا البيت،

  He was told: Indeed, Ibrahim and Ismail prayed that the hearts of the people be directed to this house,

  وَإِسْمَاعِيلَ — and Ismail. The wa- joins this as the second name gripped by the same 'indeed' particle, so it too stands in the accusative. The pair are joint subjects of the coming verb.

  From: Bedouin Manners →

• فَلَمْ يَجِدْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ

  So he did not find Isma'il.

  إِسْمَاعِيلَ — Isma'il. This is a personal name and the direct object of the finding verb, the one not found. Its object-form ending, visible on this name, marks it as what is acted upon rather than the actor. Names take case-marking just like ordinary nouns.

  From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →

• وَهَذَا الْحَدِيثُ يَدُلُّ عَلَى فِطْنَةِ إِسْمَاعِيلِ أَيْضًا

  This hadith also shows Isma'il's astuteness.

  إِسْمَاعِيل — Isma'il. This name is the owner half of the possessive pair, closing the 'astuteness of so-and-so' link by sitting directly after the quality-noun with no separate word for 'of'. Being the possessor places it in the possessive (genitive) case. The whole two-word chain is what the earlier verb was pointing toward.

  From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →