Sentence examples for walad from inspiring English sources

Afro-Asiatic lexical correspondences Afroasiatic Chadic Cushitic Egyptian Amazigh Semitic bone *ḳš *ʾJašu gaas 'horn' (Rendille) ḳs ixṣ child *wl *wəlo weel (Rendille) ult 'daughter' walad (Arabic) to die *m(w t *mətə mut (Rendille) mt əmmet met (Hebrew) to eat *t y) *ti tiyu 'food' (Beja) ti 'bread' t-att (intensive) te (Soqotri) eye *l *ali (pl).

So it is all the more surprising that the epithet hurled by the Libyan "freedom fighters" to their former leader, and which graces the outer walls of the Benghazi Katiba in the photograph by Franco Pagetti that opens Robert F. Worth's article, reads "el-Qaddafi walad al-Yahudiya," or "Qaddafi, born Jewish".

His grave is marked only with the word walad – meaning boy.