Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Elementary Arabic Morphology 1 The Make Up of Words and The Subject of Morphology What are words made up of? What does morphology teach us? Words are made up of: • One letter, for example the bā preposition in بِحَمدِ الله (with the praise of Allah) • More than one letter (up to seven letters). For example: استِخبَار (inquiry) Morphology teaches us the forms of single words and their different states before being joined together with other words.