رَاعٍ shepherd in Arabic
رَاعٍ is how you say “shepherd” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
كَالرَّاعِي يَرْعَى حَوْلَ الْحِمَى يُوشِكُ أَنْ يَرْتَعَ فِيهِ،
Like the shepherd who grazes around a sanctuary, nearly falling into it.
كَالرَّاعِي like the shepherd
'Ka-' means 'like' and governs the noun in the genitive, opening a simile. The noun is a doer-noun from 'to tend/graze', 'the herdsman', its weak final root-letter showing as a long vowel.
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More example sentences
كَالرَّاعِي يرْعَى حول الْحمى يُوشك أَن يَقع فِيهِ
Like a shepherd grazing around a sanctuary, he is likely to fall into it.
الرَّاعِي a shepherd
Definite noun, 'the shepherd', marked by the attached 'the'. Though English says 'a shepherd', Arabic uses the definite here for the generic type, the shepherd as a known figure standing for any such person.
فَإِذَا أَنَا بِرَاعٍ مُقْبِلٍ بِغَنَمِهِ إِلَى الصَّخْرَةِ
Then I came upon a shepherd approaching the rock with his flock.
بِرَاعٍ with a shepherd
Preposition 'with/at' fused onto an indefinite noun, a shepherd, here doing the special job of presenting what the narrator suddenly faced, 'there was a shepherd'. The preposition puts that noun into the 'of'-style ending; its trailing '-in' marks it indefinite. This 'bi-' is an introducer of the surprise-scene's content, not literal accompaniment.
قَالَ الرَّاعِيُ
The shepherd said.
الرَّاعِيُ the shepherd
The doer of 'said', made definite by al- ('the shepherd') and wearing the bare subject (nominative) ending. It names retroactively who the verb's built-in 'he' refers to.