مَشَايِخِهِمْtheir teachers

Example sentences

• وَدَلِيلٌ هَذَا أَنَّ إِنْتِفَاعَ النَّاسِ بِتَصَانِيفِ الْمُتَقَدِّمِينَ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ إِنْتِفَاعِهِمْ بِمَا يَسْتَفِيدُونَهُ مِنْ مَشَايِخِهِمْ؛

  The proof of this is that people benefit more from the works of earlier scholars than from what they gain from their teachers.

  مَشَايِخِهِمْ — their teachers. A broken plural — a plural made by reshaping the word's internal vowels rather than adding an ending — with a 'their' tail pointing back to the students. It sits in the after-preposition case under 'from', and carries its owner inside the single word.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →