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Arabic grammar
Grammar of the Arabic language
Arabic prosody
prosody of Arabic poetry
Arabic nunation
Nunation (, ''), in some Semitic languages such as Arabic, is the addition of one of three diacritics (cf. ḥarakāt) to a noun or adjective in order to indicate that the word ends in a sequence of a vowel and an alveolar nasal. Thus, the presence of a consonant is exceptionally expressed without the addition of the corresponding letter (which otherwise normally would have been nūn''). The sequences marked by the diacritics represent case endings (nominative, accusative and genitive). The noun phrase is fully declinable and syntactically unmarked for definiteness, identifiable in speech.
mater lectionis
representation of vowels as independent letters where they would otherwise be indicated by optional diacritics in a given orthography
Al-
definite article in Arabic
Arabic verb
verbs in the Arabic language
Poem of Sidi Boushaki
book on Arabic grammar
ʾIʿrab
'''' (, ) is an Arabic term for the declension system of nominal, adjectival, or verbal suffixes of Classical Arabic to mark grammatical case. These suffixes are written in fully vocalized Arabic texts, notably the Qur'an| or texts written for children or Arabic learners, and they are articulated when a text is formally read aloud, but they do not survive in any spoken dialect of Arabic. Even in Literary Arabic, these suffixes are often not pronounced in pausa ( ); i.e. when the word occurs at the end of the sentence, in accordance with certain rules of Arabic pronunciation. (That is, the nuna
Allahumma
In Islam, '''' (), is an Arabic term of address for Allah. The word is similar to the word but do not have the same meaning. Allah is the word Ilah ("God") with the addition of Al- ("The"), Ilah already derived from the singular form of , Eloh'' ().
broken plural
irregular plural forms in Semitic and other Afroasiatic languages, or those which loan heavily from them
elative
degree of comparison for adjectives and adverbs
Iḍāfah
thumb|Roadsign in Morocco, showing an iḍāfah construction: "Commune of Oulmes". Iḍāfah () is the Arabic grammatical construct case, mostly used to indicate possession.
Arabic nouns and adjectives
declined according to case, state, gender and number
Ibn Muti al-Zawawi
Islamic Scholar and Hanfi jurist (1169–1231)