Arabic vocabulary
How to say “the sheikh” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
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.
From: Humility Over Fame →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.
From: Public Preaching →OpenArabic teaches words like الشَّيْخِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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