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سُفْيَان Sufyan in Arabic

سُفْيَان is how you say “Sufyan” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

خَرَجَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ بْنُ حَرْبٍ وَحَكِيمُ بْنُ حِزَامٍ وَبُدَيْلُ بْنُ وَرْقَاءَ

Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, Hakim ibn Hizam, and Budayl ibn Warqa went out.

سُفْيَانَ Sufyan

The owner half of the kunya 'father of Sufyan', so the two words together name one man. Its case ending is fixed by its role as the second, owned noun of that pairing rather than by anything in the wider sentence.

From Conquest of Mecca Account

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More example sentences

وَقَالَ سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ

And Sufyan al-Thawri said:

سُفْيَانُ Sufyan

This is a proper name standing as the delayed subject of 'said', so it takes the nominative ending as the doer. It trails its verb in the normal Arabic order. It opens the speaker's full name.

From On Foolishness and Wisdom

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