حُكَمَاءِthe wise men

Example sentences

• سُئِلَ بَعْضُ الْحُكَمَاءِ مَا الْحِكْمَةُ

  Some of the wise were asked, 'What is wisdom?'

  الْحُكَمَاءِ — the wise men. A broken plural, where the plural is made by reshaping the singular's interior rather than adding an ending, here made definite by al- ('the'). As the owned half of the pairing 'some of the wise', it takes the 'of' (genitive) ending.

  From: The Four Inner Guards →