Essentials of Arabic Grammar - Asim Iqbal 2nd Islamic Downloads

The Gender of Nouns14feminine gender by form, and א ‘wall’, ‘book’, ‘pen’, אط ‘path’, ‘mosque’, ‘house’, ‘chair’, ‘canal’, ‘door’, etc. are consideredmasculine gender by form.It may also be understood that feminine gender is oftenformed from the masculine by suffixing ‘ ’, e.g. ‘Muslim’ (♂), ‘Muslim’ (♀), ‘disbeliever’(♂), ‘disbeliever’ (♀), ق د ‘truthful’ (♂), د א ‘truthful’ (♀), ‘pious’ (♂), ‘pious’ (♀), ‘son’ (♂), ‘daughter’ (♀), ‘student’ (♂), ‘student’ (♀), ‘new’ (♂), ‘new’ (♀), ‘old’(♂), ‘old’ (♀), ‘long’ (♂), ‘long’ (♀), ‘many’ (♂), ‘many’ (♀), etc. ْْْْאאאْאא‏ْ‏ (Exceptional Cases):The nouns which do notfall under the abovementionedtwo categories are termed as exceptionalcases. The following nouns are feminine by usage eventhough they have no ‘ ’(ta) ending nor have they ‘pairconcept’.1 ‘sky’, ‘war, battle’, ‘sun’, ‘fire’, ‘hell’, ‘wind’, ‘wine’, ْ ‘soul,person, self’, א د ‘house’, ‘well’, س ْ ‘cup’, ً ‘staff’, ‘an idol, a tyrant, devil’, ‘dream’,ض ‘earth’, ‘path’, ْ د ‘bucket’.2 Proper names of countries and towns are feminineby signification, e.g. ‘Egypt’, ن