sound plural
nounEtymology
Calque of Arabic جَمْع سَالِم (jamʕ sālim).
- derived from جَمْع سَالِم
Definitions
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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