فَلَاسِفَةِphilosophers

Example sentences

• فَاشْتَغَلَ هَذَا بِكُتُبِ الْفَلَاسِفَةِ،

  This man busied himself with the books of the philosophers.

  الْفَلَاسِفَةِ — the philosophers. This definite plural noun is the owning half of the 'books of ...' pair, so it sits in the 'of' (genitive) form and tells whose books are meant. Its 'the' makes the whole phrase definite. It is the anchor that the preceding 'books' leans on.

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