سِيبَوَيْهِSeebawayh

Example sentences

• وَقَسم سِيبَوَيْهٍ الْكَلَام إِلَى اسْم وَفعل وحرف جَاءَ لِمَعْنى لَيْسَ باسم وَلَا فعل،

  And Sibawayh divided speech into noun, verb, and a particle that conveys a meaning and is neither a noun nor a verb.

  سِيبَوَيْهِ — Seebawayh. The doer of 'divided', a Persian-sounding proper name that Arabic treats as fixed — it keeps the same -i ending in every case, even here as the subject.

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