سَيِّدُleader

Example sentences

• وَأَنْتَ سَيِّدُ أَهْلِ الْوَادِيِ تَخَلَّفُوا مَعَكَ،

  And you are the leader of the people of the valley; they lagged behind with you.

  سَيِّدُ — leader. A noun standing as the predicate of the verbless sentence — *what* you are — in the subject (nominative) shape. It heads an 'of' pairing with the next word: leader of a group.

  From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →

• قَالَ فَقَمَرَ سَيِّدُ لُقْمَانِ

  He said, 'Then Qamar, the master of Luqman.'

  سَيِّدُ — master. The first noun of an 'of' pairing, 'master of...'. Because it owns the name that follows, it drops any article of its own and takes its definiteness from that name. Arabic builds 'the master of Luqman' simply by placing the two nouns side by side with no separate word for 'of'.

  From: Luqman's Wisdom and Trial →