سِيبَوَيْهSibawayh in Arabic

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 →