النَّاسِ the people in Arabic
النَّاسِ is how you say “the people” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
زُيِّنَ لِلنَّاسِ حُبُّ الشَّهَوَاتِ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ وَالْبَنِينَ وَالْقَنَاطِيرِ الْمُقَنْطَرَةِ مِنَ الذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ
People were made to find attractive the love of desires: women and sons, and the piled-up heaps of gold and silver.
لِلنَّاسِ for the people
The preposition li- ('for/to') fused onto a noun carrying al- ('the'), so one word means 'for the people'. The li- assigns the genitive and marks the experiencers — those in whom the attraction is planted. It names whose hearts the love was made to seem fair to.
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فَقُلْتُ أَمَا تَسْتَحِيُ مِنَ النَّاسِ
So I said, "Aren't you ashamed of the people?"
النَّاسِ the people
A plural noun made definite by 'al-' and held in the genitive by the preposition before it. It names those before whom shame is urged. The article frames it as people in general, the public eye.
لَوْ كَانُوا مِنَ النَّاسِ مَا تَلاَعَبْتُ بِهِمْ
If they had been from the people, I would not have toyed with them.
النَّاس the people
Definite by 'al-' and held in the genitive by the preposition before it. It names the category 'real people' the figure says these are not part of. The article frames it as people proper, the worthy sort.
نَادَوْا أَيْنَ قُرَيْشُ أَيْنَ رُؤُوسُ النَّاسِ
They shouted, "Where are the Quraysh? Where are the leaders of the people?"
النَّاس of the people
This definite noun is the owner half of the pair begun by 'heads', in the genitive 'of' slot, giving 'heads of the people'. Its 'the' marks the chain as definite. Its place right behind the head noun forms the 'of' link with no separate word.