شَيْخٌ senior in Arabic
شَيْخٌ is how you say “senior” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وقد وصف لنا شيخ الإسلام ابن تيمية هذه المرحلة وصفًا يكشف لنا حقيقتها وخصائصها وميزاتها وما لها وما عليها،
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah described this phase with a description that reveals its nature, characteristics, and advantages and disadvantages,
شَيْخُ Shaykh
'the Shaykh of', nominative subject of 'described', head of an 'of' pairing with 'Islam' — the title 'Shaykh al-Islam'.
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حتى يصير شيخًا مهينا، ثم يصير إلى الموت، فيصير جيفة منتنة
until he becomes a feeble old man, then he reaches death, becoming a decayed corpse.
شَيْخًا a feeble old man
The complement of 'becomes', naming the new state, with a bare indefinite ending: 'an old man'. It takes the form becoming-verbs require for what the subject turns into.
وَكَانَ شَيْخٌ يَدُورُ فِي الْمَجَالِسِ وَيَقُولُ مَنْ سَرُّهُ أَنْ تَدُومَ لَهُ الْعَافِيَةُ، فَلْيَتَّقِ اللَّهَ
There was a sheikh who went from gathering to gathering and would say: Whoever wants his well-being to last, let him fear God.
شيخ a sheikh
An indefinite noun acting as the subject of the past 'to be' verb, so it carries the plain subject ending; left indefinite, it introduces 'a certain sheikh' newly onto the stage. It is the figure the rest of the anecdote describes, with his habitual actions told in the verbs that follow.