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الشَّيْخِ the sheikh in Arabic

الشَّيْخِ is how you say “the sheikh” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَعَيْنُهُ إِلَى تَنْبِيهِ الشَّيْخِ تَارَةً ،

And his aim is to alert the sheikh at times,

الشيخ the sheikh

A definite noun with al- ('the sheikh'), the owner term completing 'alerting of the sheikh', so it sits in the 'of'-style (genitive) ending. The chain names whom the alerting is directed at.

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بُعْدُهُ مَجْلِسِ الشَّيْخِ الْفَقِيهِ الإِمَامِ الأَوْحَدِ،

After him came the assembly of the sheikh, the jurist, the Unique Imam.

الشيخ the sheikh

An honorific title 'the sheikh', the owning term of the assembly pairing, so it sits in the genitive. It begins a stacked run of titles all describing the same person; each following title stands in apposition, piling honorifics onto this one figure.

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