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Sarf Glossary

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صيغة

December 23, 2016 1 min read

صيغة- “ṣīghah” Definition: Each conjugated form of the conjugated verbal forms; the third-person and second-person verbs have 6 ṣīghahs, whereas the first-person only has two ṣīghahs.

ضمير

December 23, 2016 1 min read

الضمير- “A personal pronoun” Definition: a definite ism that indicates a referent in terms of its being singular, dual, or plural, and whether it is first-person, second-person, or third-person.

ضمير بارز

December 24, 2016 1 min read

الضمير البارز- “explicit pronoun”

علم

December 23, 2016 1 min read

علم- “proper noun” Definition: a definite ism that denotes a specific and identified referent , like عليّ or مكة

فعل

September 17, 2016 1 min read

فعل- “verb” A verb refers to an action or a state, occurring in the past, present, or future. An alternative definition is that a verb is a word that conveys…

فعل صحيح

September 19, 2016 1 min read

صحيح- “sound verb” Definition: A verb that has no “weak” letters among its root letters.

فعل علاجي

December 23, 2016 1 min read

الفعل العلاجي- “non-mental verb” Definition: a verb whose action manifests in the physical world, like: ضرب (to hit), or عمِل (to do).

فعل قلبي

December 23, 2016 1 min read

الفعل القلبي- “mental verb” Definition: a verb whose action does not manifest in the physical world, like: علِم (to know), or ظنّ (to think).

قلب

September 19, 2016 1 min read

قلب- “transformation” Definition: The change that occurs in a word, whether it is the changing of one letter into another, like in إعلال–the change that affects weak letters–or…

قلب مكاني

September 19, 2016 1 min read

قلب مكاني- Definition: A type of قلب (change) where a single letter in a word is changes its position. In شرح النظام على شافية ابن الحاجب, it is…