نَاسِ people in Arabic
نَاسِ is how you say “people” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَقَالَ عَلَى الْبَدِيهَةِ أَفْضَلُ النَّاسِ مَنْ كَانَتْ بِنْتُهُ تَحْتَهُ،
He said on the spur of the moment: the best of people is the one whose daughter was under him.
الْنَاسِ the people
A definite plural, 'the people', the owned half of 'best of people', in the after-a-possessor case. Set beside the superlative with no word for 'of', it is the group the 'best' is drawn from.
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فَإِنَّ أَعْقَلَ النَّاسِ عَنِ اللَّهِ أَحْسَنُهُمْ عَمَلًا
Indeed, the people most mindful of God are best in their deeds.
النَّاسِ the people
This noun is the possessed half of 'the most mindful of the people', so it sits in the (genitive); its al- makes it definite. The af'al word plus this group is how Arabic forms 'the most X of Y'. It names the field the superlative ranges over.
وَجَعْلُنَا الحُكَّامُ عَلَى النَّاسِ
And We made the rulers over the people.
النَّاسِ the people
The al- makes this definite, 'the' people, marking the whole known body. It sits right after the preposition, so it takes the genitive ending that prepositions force on the noun they govern; that ending is the audible sign it is the object of 'over'.