اسْم الفَاعِل
ism al-fāʿil
The active participle
The noun derived from the verb to name the one who does the act: kātib, the one writing.
- اسْمُ الفَاعِلِism al-fāʿilActive participle
- A derived descriptive noun signifying the one from whom the act proceeds, with the sense of occurrence rather than of a fixed quality.
From the triliteral verb it is built on the pattern fāʿil: kataba → kātib, ʿalima → ʿālim, ḥakama → ḥākim. From the augmented verb it is built by putting a mīm with a kasra before the last root letter, on the pattern of the present tense: yukrimu → mukrim, yastaghfiru → mustaghfir.
هٰذَا كَاتِبٌ دَرْسَهُ
Sources
- شذا العرف في فنّ الصرفShadhā al-ʿArf fī Fann al-Ṣarf
The standard modern primer of Ṣarf; the patterns and their names below follow its arrangement.
- ألفية ابن مالكAlfiyyat Ibn Mālik
In the glossary
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The noun that names the event itself, stripped of any time — the source the verb is derived from.
Read entryWeighing a word against fāʾ–ʿayn–lām, so that its root letters and its added letters can be told apart at a glance.
Read entryThe noun in the nominative whose verb is mentioned before it.
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