الشَّيْخُ the sheikh in Arabic
الشَّيْخُ is how you say “the sheikh” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَقَدْ لَخَّصَهَا الشَّيْخُ عَلِيُّ الْطَنْطَاوِي فِي مُقَدِّمَةِ طَبْعَتِهِ لِصَيْدِ الْخَاطِرِ فَقَالَ
Sheikh Ali al-Tantawi had summarized it in the preface to his edition of Sayd al-Khatir and said:
الشَّيْخُ the sheikh
A definite noun 'the sheikh', an honorific title standing as the subject of the verb and introducing the person by rank before his name. Its 'the' marks the specific, well-known scholar.
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More example sentences
وَقَدْ يُهَانُ الشَّيْخُ فِي كِبْرِهِ حَتَّى تَرْحَمُهُ الْقُلُوبُ،
An old man may be humiliated in his old age until people's hearts have mercy on him.
الشيخ the old man
A definite noun acting as the subject of the passive verb, the one made the target of humiliation, so it takes the plain subject ending. In a passive clause the sufferer of the action becomes the grammatical subject, which is exactly the role 'the old man' plays here.