sound plural

noun

Etymology

Calque of Arabic جَمْع سَالِم (jamʕ sālim).

Definitions

  1. In Semitic and other Afro-Asiatic languages, a regular plural formed by adding a suffix,…

    In Semitic and other Afro-Asiatic languages, a regular plural formed by adding a suffix, without changes to the stem. An example in Arabic is مُسْلِمُونَ (muslimūna, “Muslims”), the plural form of مُسْلِم (muslim, “Muslim”), formed by adding the suffix ـُونَ (-ūna), and مُسْلِمَاتٌ (muslimātun, “Muslim women”), formed by adding the suffix ـَاتٌ (-ātun).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sound plural. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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