Anwar el-Sadat

1 4.8

Egyptian leader who served as president and won the Nobel Peace Prize for making peace with Israel

proper noun

: Anwar el-Sadat

Anwar el-Sadat played a key role in brokering peace between Egypt and Israel in the late 1970s.

Examples

The assassination of Anwar el-Sadat in 1981 shocked the world and altered Egypt's history.
Anwar el-Sadat played a key role in negotiating the peace treaty with Israel in 1979.
Many Egyptians remember Anwar el-Sadat as a leader who took bold steps towards diplomatic change.
The legacy of Anwar el-Sadat continues to influence Egypt today.
Did Anwar el-Sadat really believe in peace with Israel?
Many Egyptians view Anwar el-Sadat as a pivotal figure in the history of Middle Eastern diplomacy.
The assassination of Anwar el-Sadat marked a significant turning point in Egypt's political landscape.

Synonyms

Sadat

vsAnwar el-Sadat

17 5.9

Egyptian president who made peace with Israel and won the Nobel Peace Prize

is the full personal name rather than a surname alone

Anwar Sadat

vsAnwar el-Sadat

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Egyptian president who made peace with Israel and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978

is the formal name with the particle instead of the short form

Surface Forms

Anwar el-Sadat main

Morphology

Anwar + el-Sadat

This is a full proper name referring to a specific historical person; the information that he was an Egyptian president and Nobel laureate is encyclopedic and cannot be derived from the name's constituent parts. Personal names are essentially arbitrary labels (and here the components are not lexical items a B1 learner would interpret compositionally), so knowing the parts does not reveal the referential meaning.

Etymology

Anwar el-Sadat is an Arabic name: Anwar can mean 'light' and el-Sadat is a family name. He was 'president' of Egypt who made a 'peace treaty' with Israel, so his name is remembered as that of a leader who took a bold, risky step for peace.