عَالِم scholar in Arabic
عَالِم is how you say “scholar” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وزخرفوه بعبارات موجودة في كلام العلماء قد نطقوا بها،
And they adorned it with phrases found in the speech of scholars who have uttered them.
العُلَمَاءِ scholars
Genitive owner of 'speech' — 'the scholars'.
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فلهذا كان أولو الأمر صنفين العلماء، والأمراء،
Thus, those in authority consist of two types: the scholars and the rulers.
الْعُلَمَاءُ the scholars
The 'the' makes this plural noun definite, 'the scholars'; it spells out the first of the two kinds just announced. As an explanatory item it stands in the nominative, restating part of the dual.
وأجمعوا على أن من جحد منه حرفا مما أجمع عليه أو زاد حرفا لم يقرأ به أحد وهو عالم بذلك فهو كافر
And they unanimously agree that whoever denies any letter upon which there is consensus or adds a letter not recited by anyone, while being aware, is a disbeliever.
عَالِمٌ aware
An active participle 'aware/knowing', the predicate of the 'while he is...' clause, in the nominative. Built from the verb 'to know', it names the offender as one possessing knowledge of the act. It stresses that the wrong is done knowingly, not in ignorance.
قال تعلمت العلم وعلمته وقرأت فيك القرآن قال كذبت، ولكنك تعلمت ليقال عالم وقرأت القرآن ليقال هو قارئ،
He said, "I learned the knowledge, I taught it, and I recited the Quran in your presence." He said, "You lied. Rather, you learned so that people would call you a scholar, and you recited the Quran so that they would say he is a reciter."
عَالِمٌ a scholar
This noun is the content of what would be said about him, the predicate of the passive 'it would be said', so it takes the plain (nominative) ending. Its indefinite form gives the bare label, 'a scholar', the title he sought.