An Introduction To Morphology

Preterite, Aorist, and Imperative Verbs

Verbs With and Without Increase Letters Added To Their Roots

Triliteral and Quadriliteral Verbs with Increase Letters

Sound and Unsound Verbs

Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

Active and Passive Verbs

Conjugation of A Verb With Its Pronoun

Incorporation

Weak Letter Transformation

Writing a Hamza

The wasl and qat‛ hamza

Non-Perfect Verbs

Emphasis and Non-Emphasis

The Conjugation of the Passive Voice

The Infinitive

The Mimi Infinitive and The Quasi-Infinitive Noun

The Nomen Vicis And The Nomen Speciei

The Active and Passive Nouns

Epithet

Comparative and Superlative Nouns

The Exaggerated Forms

Adverbial Nouns of Place and Time and Instrumental Nouns

The Structure of a Noun

Rules Pertaining to the Dual Form

Sound Masculine Plural

Sound Feminine Plural

Broken Plurals

Rules of Broken Plurals

Nouns and Epithets

Generic and Proper Nouns

Masculine And Feminine Nouns

Possessive Nouns

The Diminutive Form

Declination

Implied Declinable Signs

Conjugational and Non-Conjugational Declinable Nouns

Indeclinable Words

Pronouns

Demonstrative Pronouns

Conjuncts

The Relative Clause

Conditional Nouns

Interrogative Nounds

Metonymy

Adverbial Nounds

Verbal Nouns

Cardinal Numbers

Ordinal Numbers

A study of Arabic Morphology volume 3. Translated by Hamid Hussein
Waqar.


Elementary Arabic Morphology 3

Broken Plurals
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130. What is a broken plural?

131. How many types of broken plurals are there?

132. What do you understand from a plural of a plural?

133. Can a plural be made plural?

134. How can a plural be made plural?

135. What is a quasi-plural noun?

136. What is a quasi-plural?

137. Are quasi-plural nouns and quasi-plural nouns made plural?

130. A broken plural is a plural that changes the singular form of the
noun, either by adding letters, for example: **رجال** the plural of
**رَجُل,** or by erasing letters, for example: **رُسُل** the plural of
**رَسُول,** or by changing the vowel signs, for example: **أسُد** the
plural of **أسَد.**

131. There are two types of broken plurals: a plural of paucity, which
is a plural that indicates three to ten, and a plural of multitude,
which is a plural that indicates three or more. There are four forms for
the plural of paucity: **أفعُل,** for example: **أنفُس,** **أفعال,** for
example: **أجداد,** **أفعِلَة,** for example: **أعمدَة,** and
**فِعلَة,** for example **فِتیَة.** Any other form used as a broken
plural is a plural of multitude and if these forms are used in any other
way they are being used figuratively.

132. The form of a plural of a plural is any plural where after there
are two letters with vowel signs after an added **alif**, for example:
**دَراهِم,** or if a *yā'* falls in between three letters, for example:
**ریاحِین.**

133. A plural is made plural to increase the number of whatever it is
making plural, for example**:الأیادي** which is the plural of **الأیدي**
which is the plural of**الید.**

134. A plural is made plural in the same way that a singular noun is
made plural according to its form, therefore the plural of **أکلُب**
would be **أکالِب** or the plural of **أظفار** would be **أظافیر.**
These are the only two forms that are used to make a plural plural.

135. A quasi-plural noun is that which indicates a group, not an
instance from the group. For example: **شَعب.**

136. A quasi-plural is that which indicates a group, the difference
between this and a quasi-sound noun is by a *tā'*, for example
**تُفَّاحَة,** or by a *yā'*, for example: **إفرَنجي.**

137. A quasi-plural noun and a quasi-plural is made plural in the same
way as singular nouns according to their forms, as an example the plural
of **قوم** becomes **أقوام.**


