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| Comment | Post #286591 |
Al-Jinn الجن is the plural of al-Jaan الجان and in singular it is either masculine al-Jinni الجني or al-Jinniyah feminine الجنية. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281346 |
Somali actually have an own language or dialect which hardly sounds like Arabic for most Arabs. None educated people there actually don't understand Arabic at all -as far as I can tell from my own experience-. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281345 |
Well this seems to me too broad as a question, because all local dialects have some basis in fusha, so all of them have similarities, but also differences. And if you start counting the differences between two of them you may nearly find endless ones. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278938 |
I think ancient Arabs used to pronounce each diacritic (al-Harakaat) on Arabic letters. In our modern times and maybe also due to the pausing rules in tajweed (of the qur'an) people don't pronounce them at the end of a sentence (when making a pause). I've once heard a scholar correcting his student w... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278191 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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What is the origin (etymology) of the word مسدس (pistol)? In Arabic the word مُسَدَّس refers to pistol when an arm is meant (see here) on wikipedia). But it also refers to a hexagon (see here on wikipedia) -also سداسي أضلاع or سداسي- as it is a description of a geometrical object that has six edges. As the number: > six سِتَّة while anything rela... (more) |
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Which spelling -if any- of ar-Rahmaan is more correct "الرحمن" or "الرحمان"? The noun ar-Rahmaan and its adjective rahmaan are pronounced with a prolongation of the letter alif between the last two letters meem and noon, nevertheless it is common that people with the name 'Abdurrahmaan ('Abdu ar-Rahmaan) write their names as follows -without an alif in the middle-: > عبد ال... (more) |
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Does al-Asma'i's poem "صوت صفير البلبل" (the sound of the whistle of the bulbul) has a story to tell? There's this famous story about al-Asma'i الأصمعي challenging the caliph abu Ja'afar al-Mansur أبو جعفر المنصور by composing a poem that is difficult to memorize, as the caliph himself used to memorize poems after the first hearing and he had both a slave and slave girl who could memorize it at secon... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277364 |
@user53100 I'm not familiar with the English terms of Arabic grammar :) (more) |
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A: What is the Arabic "praise/censure grammar" (e.g. ！ياله من رجل رائع) called in Arabic? > ياله من رجل رائع Grammatical classification In Arabic grammar this falls under the category of التَعَجُّب (at-T'ajjub) amazement as if we look grammatically deeper into the sentence we will find (the main source of 'irab اعراب is the book of إميل بديع يعقوب called: موسوعة النحو والصرف... (more) |
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