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الرَّاعِيُ the shepherd in Arabic

الرَّاعِيُ is how you say “the shepherd” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

كَمَا يَذُودُ الرَّاعِيُ الشَّفِيقُ غَنَمَهُ عَنْ مَرَاتِعِ الْهَلَكَةِ

Just as the compassionate shepherd wards his flock away from pastures of destruction.

الْرَاعِيُ the shepherd

This is a definite noun carrying 'the', and it is the doer of the warding verb before it, sitting after its verb in the verb-first arrangement. Its subject-form ending marks it as the one acting. It is the shepherd at the centre of the simile.

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