Arabic vocabulary
سِيبَوَيْهSibawayh
How to say “Sibawayh” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَقسم سِيبَوَيْهٍ الْكَلَام إِلَى اسْم وَفعل وحرف جَاءَ لِمَعْنى لَيْسَ باسم وَلَا فعل،
And Sibawayh divided speech into noun, verb, and letter that comes for meaning, not as a noun or a verb.
سِيبَوَيْهِ — Sibawayh. The doer of 'divided', a Persian-sounding proper name that Arabic treats as fixed and unbending — it keeps the same -i ending in every case, even here as the subject.
From: The Declaration of Faith →
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