Treasures of Arabic Morphology pdf download

Treasures of Arabic Morphology

TREASURES OF ARABIC MORPHOLOGY

Book’s Introduction

Arabic Morphology is a branch of Arabic Grammar dealing with word-forms and patterns. It is highly essential for the incumbent student of Arabic to learn this science in order to be proficient in the language. Acquiring an understanding of word patterns is of prime importance in learning the language.

This is a comprehensive book dealing with all the important aspects of the subject. If a student has to study this book thoroughly, he would develop a very good foundation in this science and it would absolve him of the need to study any further books on the subject.

The Arabic names of morphologic terms have been adopted instead of the Urdu forms commonly found in the text books of Islamic seminaries.

 Thus I have used the term (عين الكلمة ) instead of (عين كلمة ). Similarly, instead of writing (حركت), the correct Arabic form of (حركة) has been used while the term (الماضي) is used instead of (ماضي) which is incorrect. This will enable the student to learn the correct Arabic terms from the initial stages of his learning.

Included also is a collection of rules of word-changes which affect many Arabic verbs and nouns. The rules have been clearly explained with examples and a step by step method as to how a word is changed from its original form to its present one.

It is hoped that this book will be beneficial for the students of Arabic Grammar and Morphology and simplify the path to understanding the intricacies of the language. Āmīn.

For a detailed discussion on the name of this subject, whether it is called Morphology or Etymology, refer to Appendix A at the end of this book.

Some Useful Terms

Conjugation: A paradigm, class, or table of verb forms in such inflected languages as Latin and French, where elements are distinguished from each other by patterns of inflection relating to tense, person, number.¹

Declension: A term used to describe the case system of nouns and other words.²

Inflection: The variation or change of form that words undergo to mark distinctions of case, gender, number, tense, person, mood, voice, comparison.³

Linguistics and Philology: The study of language.

Paradigm: pronounced (pa-ra-dime), in grammar, a set of all the (especially inflected) forms of a word (write, writes, wrote, writing, written), especially when used as a model for all other words of the same type.⁴

¹ The Oxford Companion to the English Language, p. 256, 1992.

² Ibid, p. 281.

³ Websters Third New International Dictionary, vol. 2, p. 1160.

⁴ The Oxford Companion to the English Language, p. 747, 1992.

Arabic Terms

The following are some of the Arabic terms used frequently in this book. It would be advisable to learn them thoroughly as they are frequently used throughout the book.