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قَائِلٌ sayer in Arabic

قَائِلٌ is how you say “sayer” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

ولله دَرُّ القائل

By Allah, how excellent is the one who said:

القَائِلِ the one who said:

Genitive owner of 'excellence' — 'the sayer, the one who said it'; an active participle. Praising whoever spoke the coming line.

From Avoiding Scholarly Disputation

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كَمَا قَالَ القَائِلُ وَكُنتُ امْرَأً مِنْ جُنْدِ إِبْلِيسِ

As the speaker said, I was one of Iblis's troops.

القَائِلُ the speaker

A definite noun in the nominative serving as the delayed subject of 'said'; Arabic let the verb come first and names the doer here. With al- making it definite, it identifies who is being quoted, the speaker.

From Three States of the Heart

فَإِنْ قَالَ قَائِلٌ ذِكْرُ حِكَايَاتِ الْحُمْقَىٰ وَالْمَغْفِلِينَ يُوجِبُ الضَّحْكَ،

If someone says: telling the stories of fools and the gullible causes laughter,

قَائِلٌ one who says

A noun built from a verb (a doer-noun, 'a sayer / someone who says'), the indefinite subject of the saying verb before it. Being indefinite, it reads 'some sayer', the unnamed objector the conditional sets up.

From Permissible Laughter and Conduct

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