شَيْخِsheikh

Example sentences

• وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ مَيْلٌ آخِرٌ أَيَّامِهِ إِلَى الشَّيْخِ أَبِي الْفَرَجِ،

  And in his final days he had no inclination toward the sheikh Abu al-Faraj,

  الشَّيْخِ — the sheikh. A definite noun 'the sheikh', a title held in the genitive by the 'toward' preposition; its 'the' marks the specific scholar, named precisely by the by-name that follows.

  From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →

• فَجَاءَ هَذَا إِلَى دَارِ الْشَّيْخِ،

  Then this man came to the sheikh's house,

  الْشَّيْخِ — the sheikh. A definite noun 'the sheikh' completing the 'house of …' pair as its owner, in the genitive as the second member and lending definiteness back to 'house', together meaning 'the sheikh's house'.

  From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →