الشَّيْخُthe sheikh in Arabic

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.

  From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →