Arabic vocabulary
غَسَّانِ is how you say “of Ghassan” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَلَمْ يَبْقَ إِلَّا مَلِكُ غَسَّانِ بِالشَّأْمِ،
So only the king of Ghassan remained in the Levant.
غَسَّانِ — of Ghassan. A place/tribe name in the owned 'of' slot of 'king of ___', so it takes the genitive ending; the pair side by side makes 'the king of Ghassan' with no separate 'of' word.
From: Umar and the Prophet's Wives →OpenArabic teaches words like غَسَّانِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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