Arabic vocabulary
النُّسَّاكِthe ascetics
How to say “the ascetics” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَوَصَفَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ النُّسَّاكِ عِنْدَ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ ابْنِ عَائِشَةِ فَقَالُوا هُوَ جِدٌّ كُلُّهُ،
They described a man among the ascetics to Ubayd Allah ibn Aisha, and they said, "He is all seriousness."
النُّسَّاكِ — the ascetics. The al- makes this definite, 'the' ascetics, the known group. Sitting after the preposition, it takes the genitive ending that prepositions impose, marking it as the set the man is selected from.
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