فُلَان so-and-so in Arabic
فُلَان is how you say “so-and-so” in Arabic.
Arabic
English
The audio uses AI voices.
Example sentence
فيهم فلان ليس منهم، إنما جاء لحاجة،
Among them is so-and-so who is not one of them; he only came for a need.
فُلَانٌ so-and-so
This is the delayed subject — 'so-and-so', the placeholder name Arabic uses for an unnamed person (like English 'such-and-such'). Nominative, it is the one singled out: a man who is not really of the circle.
The English is machine-translated.

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