Arabic vocabulary
خَالِدِ is how you say “Khalid” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَقُتِلَ مِنْ خَيْلِ خَالِدِ يَوْمَئِذٍ رَجُلَانِ
So two men from Khalid's horsemen were killed that day.
خَالِدِ — Khalid. This name is the owner in the 'of' pairing, so the horsemen are defined as his. As the second link it takes the genitive ending but, being a proper name, carries no tanwin; its job is to say whose the preceding noun is.
From: Conquest of Mecca Account →OpenArabic teaches words like خَالِدِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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