Essentials of Arabic Grammar - Asim Iqbal 2nd Islamic Downloads

لFParts of Speech10mean that a word without ‘al’ or tanwin will not bea noun . This is evident from the examples ofאnouns mentioned above where certain words haveneither tanwin nor ‘al’, yet they are nouns. It shouldbe noted that the tanwin and ‘al’ never cometogether on a noun. If ‘al’ comes in the beginning ofa noun then its case-ending will be single vowel,א‏ْ‏ not tanwin, e.g.. it may be (a book) or (the book). It is incorrect to say . The Verbal Noun אE אF:אאThe verbal noun or noun of action may also be used as‏,א e.g. ‘help’ (literally helping), ‘a blow’(literally striking), د ‘prayer’ (literally praying), ‘order’ (literally ordering).The Arabic definite article(al) corresponds to the אل’‏ ‘English definite article ‘the’. The Arabic indefinite articletanwin is dropped when the definite article ‘al’ is prefixedto a noun, e.g. (baitun) ‘a house’ becomes (al-א baitu) ‘the house’, (jamalun) ‘a camel’ to (aljamalu) ‘the ‘camel’.Arabic has 28 alphabets or letters; of these, 14 are calledthe Sun Letters E F and the other 14 are calledthe Moon Letters E א אو F. In the moon letters thelam E of al is pronounced, e.g. א (al-qamaru’). Whileאאوאin the sun letters the lam of al is assimilated to the firstletter of the noun, e.g. (ash-shamsu). Theassimilation is indicated by (shadda, –ّ ) on the first letterא