Arabic vocabulary
مَشَايِخِsheikhs in Arabic
مَشَايِخِ is how you say “sheikhs” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَلِهَذَا يَكْثُرُ فِي كَلاَمِ مَشَايِخِ الدِّينِ وَأَئِمَّتِهِ
For this reason, it is common in the speech of religious sheikhs and its imams.
مَشَايِخِ — religious sheikhs. A broken-plural noun 'elders/sheikhs' in the middle of a possessive chain, owned by 'the religion' after it and itself owned by 'speech of' before it. It is in the genitive as a link in the chain.
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