Arabic vocabulary
How to say “Sa'd” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
وَكَانَ سَعْدٌ إِذَا مَرَّ بِمَكَّةِ نَزَلَ عَلَى أُمَيَّةِ،
Whenever Sa'd passed through Mecca, he would stay with Umayya.
سَعْدٌ — Sa'd. A proper name as the subject (nominative) of 'was', here marked by the -un tail (tanwin) that signals an indefinite-style nominative on the name. It is the person whose habit is described.
From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →فَلَمَّا قَدِمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ الْمَدِينَةَ اِنْطَلَقَ سَعْدٌ مُعْتَمِرًا،
When the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, arrived in Medina, Sa'd set out intending to perform umrah.
سَعْدٌ — Sa'd. A proper name as the subject (nominative) of the departing verb before it. It is the one who set out, the doer of the main action.
From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →مَنْ هَذَا مَعَكَ فَقَالَ هَذَا سَعْدٌ
Who is this with you? Then he said, "This is Sa'd."
سَعْدٌ — Sa'd. A proper name standing as the predicate of the verbless 'this is...' sentence; it carries the subject-style (nominative) ending, identifying who the pointed-at person is. No 'is' word is needed between them.
From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →فَقَالَ لَهُ سَعْدٌ وَرَفَعَ صَوْتَهُ عَلَيْهِ
Sa'd said to him and raised his voice at him.
سَعْدٌ — Sa'd. A proper name as the subject (nominative) of the reporting verb before it — the speaker. Verb-then-subject order is at work here.
From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →فَقَالَ سَعْدٌ دَعْنَا عَنْكَ يَا أُمَيَّةُ،
Sa'd said, 'Leave us alone, O Umayya.'
سَعْدٌ — Sa'd. A proper name as the subject (nominative) of the reporting verb before it; its -un tail (tanwin) marks the nominative. It names the speaker.
From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →أَلَمْ تَرَ مَا قَالَ لِي سَعْدٌ
Have you not seen what Sa'd said to me?
سَعْدٌ — Sa'd. A proper name as the subject (nominative) of the reporting verb in the relative clause — the one who spoke. It identifies the speaker being quoted.
From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →فَقَالَ كَذَبَ سَعْدٌ، وَلَكِنْ هَذَا يَوْمٌ يُعَظِّمُ اللَّهُ فِيهِ الْكَعْبَةَ،
He said, "Sa'd lied; but this is a day on which God magnifies the Kaaba."
سَعْدٌ — Sa'd. A personal name standing as the doer of 'lied', shown by the '-un' indefinite subject ending. It names who the verb before it is about.
From: Conquest of Mecca Account →OpenArabic teaches words like سَعْدٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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