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السِّجَّانُ the jailer in Arabic

السِّجَّانُ is how you say “the jailer” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَكَانَا فِي السِّجْنِ مَعًا، فَمَنَعَهُمَا السِّجَّانُ مِنْ إِدْخَالِ الْحَطَبِ فِي لَيْلَةٍ بَارِدَةٍ،

They were together in prison, and the jailer prevented them from bringing in firewood on a cold night.

السِّجَّانُ the jailer

This is the doer of the preventing, an agent-noun built to mean 'the one who jails', carrying al- and the subject-style -u ending. That -u ending marks it as the subject of the verb just before. Arabic forms occupation-nouns like this from a verb root with a fixed doubled-consonant mold.

From A Son Protecting His Father

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