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Arabic - Taa Marbuta
9. The Ta Marbuta - The Haa with 2 Dots
The Ta marbuta haa is female, amorphous, non-gendered.
The haa without the 2 dots is male.
There is a special letter that ends words. It takes the taa on the end. That is the taa
marbuta. It looks like the pronoun haa, but there is 2 dots above it, and those 2 dots
are a taa. So it’s a combination haa and taa, and it looks like both letters
paradoxically.
When it's haa on the end it's female.
When it's huu on the end, it's male.
Salaat = prayer
the word is (s-l-w) and the waw is lost and the taa is added.
Salawaat = prayers
plural, but still female form of taa marbuta.
Jami’a = gathering, grouping
Jama’at = college, attendance
Haa again – a simple general rule about gender
Haa with aah vowel is female = ha
Huw with uuh vowel is male = hu
Hiy with iy vowel is amorphous female, like it = hi
Saliyhu = a prayerful good man
Saliyha = a prayerful good woman
Note: notice that with prolonging waw and yaw and alif, no matter what the actual
dictionary entry, it just accepts the common usage, and any such use is
interchangeable, aa, ee, uu.
(s-l-w) = salaat, salawaat, saliyha, saluw
When you look up in the dictionary, often the alif, waw, and yaw are
interchangeable.
It’s confusing, but that is how it is, and when looking up
tri-stems, often you have to look at various options for a prolonged letters. If you
know two of the three consonants, then substitute waw, yaw, ‘ayn, or alif, and
most often you can find it.
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The Ta marbuta haa is female, amorphous, non-gendered.
The haa without the 2 dots is male.
There is a special letter that ends words. It takes the taa on the end. That is the taa
marbuta. It looks like the pronoun haa, but there is 2 dots above it, and those 2 dots
are a taa. So it’s a combination haa and taa, and it looks like both letters
paradoxically.
When it's haa on the end it's female.
When it's huu on the end, it's male.
Salaat = prayer
the word is (s-l-w) and the waw is lost and the taa is added.
Salawaat = prayers
plural, but still female form of taa marbuta.
Jami’a = gathering, grouping
Jama’at = college, attendance
Haa again – a simple general rule about gender
Haa with aah vowel is female = ha
Huw with uuh vowel is male = hu
Hiy with iy vowel is amorphous female, like it = hi
Saliyhu = a prayerful good man
Saliyha = a prayerful good woman
Note: notice that with prolonging waw and yaw and alif, no matter what the actual
dictionary entry, it just accepts the common usage, and any such use is
interchangeable, aa, ee, uu.
(s-l-w) = salaat, salawaat, saliyha, saluw
When you look up in the dictionary, often the alif, waw, and yaw are
interchangeable.
It’s confusing, but that is how it is, and when looking up
tri-stems, often you have to look at various options for a prolonged letters. If you
know two of the three consonants, then substitute waw, yaw, ‘ayn, or alif, and
most often you can find it.
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