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ذُو
possessor of /ˈðuː/
nounA1#366 most common
Also: owner of, endowed with, having
Example sentences
هَذَا رَجُلٌ ذُو مَالٍ.
This is a man of wealth.
مُحَمَّدٌ ذُو عِلْمٍ كَبِيرٍ.
Muhammad is a man of great knowledge.
سَلَّمْتُ عَلَى رَجُلٍ ذِي خُلُقٍ حَسَنٍ.
I greeted a man of good character.
إِنَّ ذَا الْعَقْلِ يَحْتَرِمُ النَّاسَ.
Indeed, the person of reason respects people.
زُرْنَا فِي ذِي الْحِجَّةِ بَيْتَ اللَّهِ الْحَرَامَ.
In Dhul-Hijjah we visited the Sacred House of God.
كَانَ ذُو الْقَرْنَيْنِ مَلِكًا عَادِلًا ذَا سُلْطَانٍ عَظِيمٍ.
Dhul-Qarnayn was a just king of great power.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ذُو | ذَوُو |
| Genitive | ذِي | ذَوِي |
| Accusative | ذَا | ذَوِي |
| Vocative | ذَا | ذَوِي |
Word family
ذَاتself, essence; (feminine) possessor of
ذَاتِيّself-, intrinsic, subjective
ذَاتِيَّةselfhood, subjectivity, identity
ذَوُوthose possessing, kinsfolk (as in ذَوُو الْقُرْبَى)
ذَوَات(feminine plural) ladies; possessors of
Etymology
ذُو comes from a Proto-Semitic determinative and relative element *ḏū, meaning roughly "the one of, this." In Classical Arabic the sense narrowed to "possessor of," and the word now lives mainly in fixed construct phrases. It is one of the Five Nouns, which mark case with long vowels rather than the usual short ones. Related forms run across the Semitic family.
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