أَهْلُ people in Arabic
أَهْلُ is how you say “people” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فسأل عن أعلم أهل الأرض،
He asked about the most knowledgeable person on Earth.
أَهْلِ people of
This noun ('people / folk of') is the middle link of a chain — 'the most learned of the PEOPLE of the earth'. It is owned above by the elative and owns 'the earth' below. The 'of' links are shown only by juxtaposition.
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ثم سأل عن أعلم أهل الأرض،
Then he asked about the most knowledgeable person on Earth.
أَهْلِ people of
Middle link of the chain — 'the most learned of the PEOPLE of the earth'. Owned above, owning below, with each 'of' shown only by juxtaposition.
إن قالت الملائكة نحن أهل التسبيح والتقديس،
If the angels said, "We are the people of glorification and sanctification."
أَهْلُ the people of
This noun is what is said about 'we', standing in the plain subject ending as the predicate, and it is also the first half of a possessive pair. As the leading noun it leans on the next word to say people of what, with no separate 'of'.
قَالَ وَأَهْلُ الصُّفَّةِ أَضْيَافُ الإِسْلَامِ،
He said, "The People of the Suffah are guests of Islam."
وَأَهْلُ and the people
This is 'and' fused to the noun 'people', here starting a new statement; the 'and' loosely links it to the preceding speech. The noun is the first half of the 'People of the Suffah' pairing and the subject of the sentence. It stands in the subject form, awaiting its predicate.
وَمَا أَوَّّلُ طَعَامِ يَأْكُلُهُ أَهْلُ الْجَنَّةِ
And what is the first food the people of Paradise will eat?
أَهْلُ people of
A group-noun 'people of' that heads an ownership pairing with 'Paradise', and serves as the doer of the eating. As head it gives up its own 'the' to take definiteness from the place-name that follows.
وَأَمَّا أَوَّلُ طَعَامٍ يَأْكُلُهُ أَهْلُ الْجَنَّةِ
As for the first food the people of Paradise will eat.
أَهْلُ people
A group-noun 'people of' heading an ownership pairing with 'Paradise', and the doer of the eating. As head it gives up its own 'the' to take definiteness from the place-name that follows.
وَأَهْلُ الْكِتَابِ وَالسُّنَّةِ،
And those who follow the Book and the prophetic tradition,
وَأَهْلُ and the people
The wa- opens with 'and'. The noun heads a possessive pair, 'the people OF the Book', bound to the following noun; it names a group by what they belong to. As the front member it stays bare of its own 'the', drawing definiteness from the owner ahead.
وَلَقَدْ بُشِّرَ الصَّابِرُونَ بِثَلَاثٍ كُلُّ مِنْهَا خَيْرٌ مِمَّا عَلَيْهِ أَهْلُ الدُّنْيَا يَتَحَاسَدُونَ
And indeed the patient ones were given glad tidings of three things, each of which is better than what the people of the world compete over.
أَهْلُ people
A noun ('people') that leads the first half of an 'of' pairing ('people of the world'). As the head it stays bare of 'the', handing its definiteness to the owner that follows, and stands as the clause's doer.
بَلَّ وَإِبْلِيسُ مُعْتَرِفٌ بِهَذِهِ الْحَقِيقَةِ وَأَهْلُ النَّارِ
Rather, Iblis and the people of the Fire acknowledge this reality.
وَأَهْلُ and the people
The 'and' attaches a second subject, and this noun is also the first half of a possessive pair ('people of...'). As the owner-side of that pair it drops its own 'the' and waits for the following noun to complete the chain.
فَازْدَحَمَ عَلَيْهِ أَهْلُ بَغْدَادِ،
So the people of Baghdad crowded around him,
أَهْلُ people
A noun meaning the inhabitants or folk of a place, here the head of a possessive pairing with the city name that follows. It is the real doer of the singular verb earlier, so it carries the subject-style ending while its number drives that verb's interpretation.