Arabic vocabulary
وَزِيرُminister
How to say “minister” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَاِنْتَزَعَ الْوَزِيرُ مَدْرَسَةَ جَدِّهِ وَسَلَّمَهَا إِلَى اِبْنِ الْجَوْزِيِّ،
The minister seized his grandfather's school and handed it over to Ibn al-Jawzi,
الْوَزِيرُ — the minister. A definite noun 'the minister', the subject (doer) of 'seized', so it wears the subject ending. Its 'the' marks the specific official already in view as the one who did the seizing.
From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →
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