قَوْمُ people in Arabic
قَوْمُ is how you say “people” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فقيل لى هذا موسى وقومه،
but it was said to me: This is Moses and his people,
وَقَوْمُهُ and his people
This is 'and' plus 'his people', with attached 'his' — coordinated into the predicate, 'Moses AND his people'. It shares the nominative. The pronoun ties the community to Moses, identifying the throng as his nation, not the Prophet's.
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حَتَّى اِنْتَهَيْتُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَقَدْ رُوِيَ الْقَوْمُ كُلُّهُمْ،
I came to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and by then the whole group had been given to drink.
الْقَوْمُ the people
The noun 'the people/group' made definite by 'the', the subject of the passive 'had been given drink'; in a passive, the one acted upon stands as the subject. The definiteness points to the specific company present. It is who received the drinking.
فَلَمَّا تَصَافَّ الْقَوْمُ كَانَ سَيْفُ عَامِرٍ فِيهِ قِصَرٌ،
When the people engaged one another, Amir's sword had a short dagger in it.
الْقَوْمُ the people
Carries the 'the' marker and acts as the doer of the reciprocal verb before it. It is a collective word for a body of men, so although it is singular in form it stands for a whole group, and the definiteness frames them as the specific fighters already in view.
ثُمَّ أَذِنَ لِعَشَرَةٍ، فَأَكَلَ الْقَوْمُ كُلُّهُمْ وَشَبِعُوا،
Then he permitted ten, and all the people ate and were satisfied.
الْقَوْمُ the people
The doer of the eating -- 'the people', a collective noun made definite by al- and wearing the bare subject (nominative) ending. Though it means a crowd, it takes a singular-style verb, which is why the verb before it stayed singular.
وَالْقَوْمُ ثَمَانُونَ رَجُلًا
And the people were eighty men.
وَالْقَوْمُ and the people
This opens with the joining word wa- ('and') fused onto a noun that already carries al- ('the'), so it is fixed as definite and specific: this particular group. It works as the subject the sentence then counts, and the wa- ties this clause back to the narrative that came before it.
فَلَمْ يَلْبَثْ الْقَوْمُ إِلَّا قَلِيلاً حَتَّى أَتَى الْجُرْذُ عَلَى الرَدْمِ
So the people had not remained except a little until the rat came onto the mound.
الْقَوْمُ the people
A definite plural noun and the subject of the (non-)remaining, so it takes the plain naming ending. It is the party the brief interval is told about.