الشَّيْخِthe sheikh in Arabic

Example sentences

• 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.

  From: Public Preaching →