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Arabic Basics
Arabic - Plurals - Diphthongs - Prolonging Consonants
7. Plurals - Sound and Form
There are 2 kinds of plurals:
Sound plurals = aXYaZZa = af^alla
Form plurals = XaYaZZa = fa^alla
There is an easy example – prophets.
Also has a prolonging yaa - een
Template Morphology
sirr = a secret
asraari =a XYaZZa = secrets - sound plural
sirarri = XaYuZZa = secrets = form plural
sirr asrarri wa nuwr anwarri = secret of secrets and light of lights
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There are 2 kinds of plurals:
Sound plurals = aXYaZZa = af^alla
Form plurals = XaYaZZa = fa^alla
There is an easy example – prophets.
- Anbiyya – a sound plural
- Nabuwwa – a grammatical form plural
- The root is (n-b-y) or (n-b-w) another secret, as often waw and yaa are
interchangeable, as you see here. - The basic word for prophet is nabiy
- Again the definite is an-nabiy
- This is the shaddah assimilation of the lam by the nun.
- It’s not al-nabiy, but an-nabiy, as the nun is a moon letter
- Nuwr – anwar – a light, lights – sound (n-w-r)
- Sahab – as~hab – companion, companions - sound
- Kafir – kafireen – a disbeliever, disbelievers – form
Also has a prolonging yaa - een
Template Morphology
sirr = a secret
asraari =a XYaZZa = secrets - sound plural
sirarri = XaYuZZa = secrets = form plural
sirr asrarri wa nuwr anwarri = secret of secrets and light of lights
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