Arabic vocabulary
السِّجَّانُthe jailer in Arabic
السِّجَّانُ is how you say “the jailer” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
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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