The noun in the nominative with which a sentence begins, free of any expressed governor.
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Ibrahim Al Mubtasim
إبراهيم المبتسم
Teacher of Nahw, Sarf and Balagha · Imam of the Croydon Islamic Community Trust Masjid
A working reference in the Arabic sciences: each entry gives the ḥadd — the definition — as the classical text gives it, with its evidences, its sources, and a route on to the next term.
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Weighing a word against fāʾ–ʿayn–lām, so that its root letters and its added letters can be told apart at a glance.
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Not an essay and not a summary. An entry opens with the definition as a named text gives it, sets it against a shāhid — an evidence from revelation or from the speech of the Arabs — reports the disagreement where the scholars disagreed, names its sources, and links on to the terms it depends on.
Nahw — Syntax · 5Sarf — Morphology · 3Balagha — Rhetoric · 3Fiqh — Jurisprudence · 1Aqidah — Creed · 1Seerah — Prophetic biography · 1- الإعْرابُal-iʿrābCase and mood inflection
- The change that comes over the end of a word because of the governors that enter upon it, whether pronounced or intended.
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