شَهِيد martyr in Arabic
شَهِيد is how you say “martyr” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فإن هؤلاء الثلاثة الذين يريدون الرياء والسمعة هم بإزاء الثلاثة الذين بعد النبيين من الصديقين والشهداء والصالحين،
For these three who seek show and reputation are the counterparts of the three who come after the prophets: the truthful, the martyrs, and the righteous.
وَالشُّهَدَاءِ the martyrs
'And' plus a broken plural in the genitive, the second rank — those slain in God's cause. It is parallel to the sincere ones in the list.
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More example sentences
ومن قاتل لتكون كلمة الله هي العليا وقتل كان شهيدا،
And whoever fights so that the word of God is supreme and is killed is a martyr,
شَهِيدًا a martyr
Predicate of 'was', accusative (the tanwin) as this 'to be' governs, indefinite — 'a witness / martyr'. The accusative ending marks what he thereby became.
ويعطيهم منازل الشهداء
...and grants them the ranks of martyrs.
الشُّهَدَاءِ of the martyrs
This is the owner in the 'ranks of the martyrs' pairing, and its genitive ending is what signals that it possesses the noun before it. Its own 'al-' makes it definite, and that definiteness passes back to the ranks, so the whole phrase reads as specific.