ذِي who in Arabic
ذِي is how you say “who” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
الحمد لله الذي لا يجد الهارب منه وزرًا ولا معاذا،
Praise be to Allah, from whom the fugitive cannot find refuge nor escape.
ٱلَّذِي who
This relative word, 'who', hooks a describing clause onto the divine name. It marks everything after as further telling about that same one, the normal Arabic link when the thing described is definite.
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More example sentences
بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ
In the name of your Lord who created.
الَّذِي who
A relative word meaning 'who', opening a clause that describes the Lord just named. It hooks the following verb onto 'your Lord' as a defining trait, the One who created.
لَا تَخْلُوا بِاِمْرَأَةٍ غَيْرِ ذِي مَحْرَمٍ
Do not be alone with a woman who has no mahram.
ذِي possessor of
A noun meaning 'possessor of/one having', which only ever appears as the head of a possessive pairing and forces the following noun into the 'of' (genitive) ending. Here it links to 'mahram' to mean 'one who has a mahram', the whole phrase negated by the preceding 'lacking'.
فَذَلِكَ الَّذِي مَنَعَنَا
So that is what prevented us.
الَّذِي that which
A relative pronoun, 'the one which', opening a clause that describes the 'that' just named. It knots the following verb-clause onto the demonstrative, making it the thing that did the preventing.
فَقَالُوا هَاتِ الَّذِي أَتَيْتَنَا بِهِ الْبَارِحَةَ
They said, "Bring the one you brought to us yesterday."
الَّذِي the one
This is a 'the one that' linking-word standing in for the thing demanded, and it opens a relative clause describing it. It works as the object of 'bring' while leaving the thing itself to be defined by the clause. Everything after it tells which thing.