نَحْوِيُّ the grammarian in Arabic
نَحْوِيُّ is how you say “the grammarian” in Arabic.
Arabic
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Example sentence
وَقَدْ كَانَ شُعْبَةُ يُحَدِّثُ، فَإِذَا رَأَى الْمَزِيدُ النَّحْوِيُّ قَالَ إِنَّهُ أَبُو زَيْدٍ الْبَسِيطُ
And indeed Shu'ba used to narrate, and whenever al-Mazid the grammarian saw him, he would say: Indeed he is Abu Zayd al-Basit:
النَّحْوِيُّ the grammarian
A describing word formed from a noun (an affiliation-style adjective, 'the grammar one' = the grammarian) attached as an epithet to the name. As an Arabic adjective it follows its noun and matches its definiteness with al-, so it trails and agrees with the name.
The English is machine-translated.
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