Arabic: An Essential Grammar

derived forms 116–23, 160–2,

219 – 20, 320– 7

doubled 218–19, 322–3, 334

with hamzah 117, 224–6, 250–1,

337 – 9, 347

negative copula 196, 290–1, 294,

310, 311

participles 160–2, 202– 3

quadrilateral 219–20, 335– 6

tenses see imperfect tense, perfect

tense

vowelling patterns 79–80,

106 – 7

weak 231–51, 324–7, 340– 9

of wonder 289– 90

vocative particles 171– 2

vowels 13–14, 21– 2

absence 17

wa 51, 90–1, 110, 193, 261, 304

wa... 110, 313

was
̇

lah see hamzatu l-was

̇

li

wa ̄w 3, 8, 21, 27, 40, 135

of h

̇

a ̄l 304

weak verbs

final radical 246–9, 344–6,

348

initial radical 231–3, 324–5,

340

middle radical 237–41, 326–7,

341 – 3

two weak radicals 249–51, 349

wonder, verbs of 289– 90

word order 33, 80–1, 108– 9

word stress 22– 3

writing

consonants 3–4, 9– 10

hamzah 27, 135– 40

numbers 256–7, 259, 260, 261– 2

vowels 13, 21– 2

see also handwriting

ya ̄ 171, 193

ya ̄

3, 8, 10, 21, 22, 27, 40, 135

years 264–5, 276, 300

za ̄la 196, 291

zayn 2, 6, 39, 123

355

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