سُفْيَانَ Sufyan in Arabic
سُفْيَانَ is how you say “Sufyan” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
أَنَّ سُفْيَانَ بْنَ عِيَيْنَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَنْهُ قَالَ لَهُ
That Sufyan ibn Uyaynah, may Allah be pleased with him, said to him.
سُفْيَانَ Sufyan
This name is the subject of the reported clause, yet because the 'that' particle precedes it, Arabic puts it in the object case, heard as a final -a. So the doer wears an object-looking ending purely because of the particle, a quirk with no English parallel.
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فَقَالَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ أَفِي الْقَوْمِ مُحَمَّدٌ ثَلاَثَ مَرَّاتٍ،
Then Abu Sufyan said, "Is Muhammad among the people?" three times.
سُفْيَانَ Sufyan
The name closing the 'father of...' unit, completing the kunya 'Abu Sufyan'; it takes the second-slot genitive ending of such a pairing. Position and ending fuse the two words into one name.
فَقَالَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ مَا هَذِهِ لَكَأَنَّهَا نِيرَانُ عَرَفَةَ
Abu Sufyan said, "What are these? They look like the fires of Arafat."
سُفْيَانَ Sufyan
The owned half of the kunya 'father of Sufyan', completing the speaker's name. Its ending reflects its place inside that name-pair, not the surrounding sentence.
فَقَالَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ عَمْرُو أَقَلُّ مِنْ ذَلِكَ
Abu Sufyan said, "Amr is less than that."
سُفْيَانَ Sufyan
The owned half of the kunya 'father of Sufyan', completing the name. Its ending belongs to the name-pair, not to the wider clause.
فَأَسْلَمَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ،
Then Abu Sufyan embraced Islam.
سُفْيَانَ Sufyan
The owned half of the kunya 'father of Sufyan', completing the subject's name. Its ending belongs to the name-pair, not to the clause around it.
اِحْبِسْ أَبَا سُفْيَانَ عِنْدَ حَطْمِ الْخَيْلِ
Detain Abu Sufyan at Hatm al-Khayl.
سُفْيَانَ Sufyan
The owned half of the kunya 'father of Sufyan', completing the name of the man to be detained. Its ending fits the name-pair; the whole two-word name functions as the single object of the command.
فَقَالَ سَعْدُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ يَا أَبَا سُفْيَانَ
Then Sa'd ibn 'Ubada said, "O Abu Sufyan."
سُفْيَانَ Sufyan
The owned half of the kunya 'father of Sufyan', completing the name of the man being addressed. Its ending belongs to the name-pair within the call.
فَلَمَّا مَرَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِأَبِي سُفْيَانَ
When the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, passed by Abu Sufyan.
سُفْيَانَ Sufyan
The owned half of the kunya 'Abu Sufyan', also in the genitive because the whole name is governed by the bi- before it. Its ending reflects both the name-pair and the preposition's pull.