Arabic vocabulary
شُيُوخِsheikhs in Arabic
شُيُوخِ 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 كَانَ بِعَضِّ الشُّيُوخِ إِذَا أَمَرَ مُتَّبِعِيهِ بِالتَّوْبَةِ
For this reason, when some of the sheikhs would order their followers to repent,
الشُّيُوخِ — the sheikhs. A definite broken-plural noun 'the elders/sheikhs' in the genitive after the partitive phrase. Its 'the' marks the known group from which 'some' are drawn.
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