Arabic vocabulary
سُلَيْمَانَ is how you say “Sulayman” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
فَقَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قُولِي لَهُ يَدْخُلْ وَحْدَهُ
So Muhammad ibn Sulayman said, "Tell him to enter alone."
سُلَيْمَانِ — Sulayman. The father's name completing the 'son of...' pairing, in the genitive shape. As the second member of the side-by-side pair it takes the genitive ending, naming the father.
From: Wealth and Knowledge on Trial →جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى سُلَيْمَانَ النَّبِيِّ
A man came to the Prophet Suleiman.
سُلَيْمَان — Suleiman. This proper name follows the 'to' preposition, so it takes the post-preposition case, and it also opens a possessive-style pair with the title after it, 'so-and-so the prophet'. As a name it is already definite. It is the destination the man traveled toward.
From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →OpenArabic teaches words like سُلَيْمَانَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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