السِّجَّانُthe jailer

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 →