Lesson 51 – الدَّرْسُ الْواحِدُ وَالْخَمْسُونَ
The Mamdūd Noun الاسـم الممـدود
Declension of Mamdūd Noun - إِعْرابُ الاِسْمِ المَمْدُودِ
- This is lesson fifty one of our free Arabic language course. This Arabic course with images and audios will help you learn Arabic.
- Arabic Radical hamza: The Mamdūd Noun declension signs are the three diacritic signs đammah (ـُ), fatħah (ـَ) and Kasrah (ـِ). Consider the examples:
| Picture | Declension sign | Declension case | Mamdūd noun | Translation | Sentence |
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| đammah | Nominative | /qarrā’-un/ | This man is the most reciting of the Qur'an. | |
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| fatħah | Accusative | /qarrā’-a/ | I like reciters of the Qur'an. | |
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| Kasrah | Genitive | بَنَّاءٍ /bannā’-in/ | I worked with a good builder. |
- Converted hamza: The Mamdūd Noun declension signs are also the three diacritic signs đammah (ـُ), fatħah (ـَ) and Kasrah (ـِ). Consider the examples:
| Picture | Declension sign | Declension case | Mamdūd noun | Translation | Sentence |
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| đammah | Nominative | /as-samā’-u/ | The sky is clear. | |
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| fatħah | Accusative | /as-samā’-a/ | I like the sky without fog. | |
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| Kasrah | Genitive | /as-samā’-i/ | The moon appeared in the sky. | |
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| Kasrah | Accusative | /as-samawāt-i/ | Allah has created heavens without columns. |
- Note: the word السَّماواتِ /al-samāwāt-i/ in the last example is in the accusative case but the diacritical sign is the Kasrah (of the genitive case) not the fatħah because the word سَمَاوات is جَمْعُ مُؤَنَّثٍ سَالِمٍ /ĵamξ mu'annath sālim/ (sound feminine plural) and so the diacritical signs of declension are the same of the sound feminine plural [see Lesson 54].
3- Augmented hamza for femininity: The Mamdūd noun in this case will be (مَمْنُوعٌ مِن الصَّرْفِ) /mamūξu-n min aŝ-ŝarf/ (or prohibited from variation, i.e. diptote), and therefore the diacritical signs will be the đammah for the nominative case and the fatħah for both the accusative and genitive cases. Consider the following examples:
| Picture | Declension sign | Declension case | Mamdūd noun | Translation | Sentence |
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| đammah | Nominative | /ħasnā’-u/
| Hasnaa attended the meeting. | |
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| fatħah | Accusative | /aŝ-ŝahrâ’- a/ | I saw the Western Sahara (desert). | |
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| fatħah | Genitive | /bayđâ’- a/ | I went to Haj with white clothes. | |
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| Kasrah | Genitive | /al-bayđâ’- i/ | I have a lot of white clothes. | |
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| Kasrah | Genitive | /ŝahrâ’-i/ | I walked in Saudi desert. |
