Arabic-English dictionary / William Thomson Wortabet, with the collaboration of John Wortabet and Harvey Porter.

  • Wortabet, William Thomson.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Arabic-English dictionary / William Thomson Wortabet, with the collaboration of John Wortabet and Harvey Porter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    _ 2 — PART I. THE VERB. The Verb is divided into three forms; — the Past ) ^ y ^ Mi • ^ as — the Present-Future ^ as ^; — and the Imperative ( ^ It is constructed of three letters ( Sib triliteral ) <ir four { quadriliteral ) , and is then called bare )? both may be increased to six letters, and are then called augmented The bare triliteral has six measures #■» ( qwadriliteral has only one. Arab Grammarians have adopted the Avord ^ to represent all these measures which are shown in the following table, and to which examples are added. BARE TRILITERAL VERBS. TRILITERALS AUGMENTED BY ONE LETTER. > 0J y'^0f J«i J^' Ex : • 1 • j ft ^ ^ — ^ r j2 If • *■-; e-^- r- JcVl JtVi ft Jo TRILITERALS AUGMENTED t-1 BY TWO LETTERS. J«»-i J-* J-il Ja* Ex: Jc\.ii JeVi.'