Arabic vocabulary
الشَّيْخُthe sheikh
How to say “the sheikh” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَلَمَّا لَمْ يَتَغَيَّرْ أَحَدٌ مِنْهُمْ قَامَ الشَّيْخُ
When none of them changed, the sheikh stood up.
الشَّيْخ — the sheikh. A definite noun, the title 'the elder', and the doer of the rising, so it takes the plain naming ending. Sitting after its verb, it is the subject the verb-first order delays.
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