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صفحة: VI

On Combinations of the Term for Nunation and Terms That Denote Case and Short Vowels Mahmud Mustafa The Arabic Language Academy , Haifa In works of grammar one fi nds a variety of terms that denote nunation ( tanw › n ) of words in the various cases . Some prefer to separate the term for nunation from the term that refers to the word’s in fl exion ( i ‘ r › b ) , as in ism marf ›‘ munawwan (“ a nunated noun in the raf ‘ [ nominative ] case” ) or tanw › n al-ism al- marf ›‘ (“ nunation of a noun in the raf ‘ case” ) . Others use a possessive construction in which the nunation is annexed to the term denoting the short vowels , as in tanw › n al- › amm , tanw › n al-fat › and tanw › n al-kasr . Still others annex the nunation term to the term that denotes the case , as in tanw › n al-raf ‘ , tanw › n al-na › b and tanw › n al-jarr . In this study we show how this combination , of tanw › n with terms denoting cases and short vowels , appears in a selection of works up to the beginning : of the twentieth century . Our main fi ndings are as follows 1 . The older sources use two distinct terms , one denoting nunation and the other grammatical case or case ending . In other words , they describe a word as nunated and also as being in one of the three cases , or they note that the nunation is preceded by one of the vowels that serve as the case-endings . This type of usage for referring to nunated nouns is in use to this day . 2 . At the beginning of the seventeenth century some grammarians began to use new terms , in which the term “ nunation” was annexed to the name of the short vowel : tanw › n al- › amm (“ nunation of the u ending” ) , tanw › n al-fat › (“ nunation of the a ending” ) and tanw › n al- kasr (“ nunation of the i ending ) . We list the books in which we found

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