Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Elementary Arabic Morphology 2 Nunated and Unnunated Words What is a nunated word? What is an unnunated word? What are the most important unnunated words? What is a proper noun being unnunated conditional upon? What is an adjective being unnunated conditional upon? What is a plural being unnunated conditional upon? What is a noun ending in the feminine alif being unnunated conditional upon? When does an unnunated noun accept a kasrah?
A nunated word is a word that accepts nunation and all of the vowel signs. For example: رجُل (man) and عالم (scholar) An unnunated word is a word that does not except a kasrah or nunation. For example: إبراهیم (Abraham) یعقوب (Jacob).
The most important unnunated words are: • Some proper nouns and singular adjectives • Plural nouns in the two forms مفاعل and مفاعیل • Any word that ends in the feminine alif A Proper noun becomes unnunated if: • it is feminine, for example: مریم (Maryam) • it is taken from a foreign language, for example: إسحَق (Isaac) • it is a compound word, for example: بَعلبَک (a city in Lebanon) • it has an alif and nūn added to the end of it, for example: عثمان • it is on the form of a verb, for example: أحمَد • it was taken from another word, for example: عُمَر Adjectives become unnunated if: • they are on the form فَعلان which is made feminine by putting it into the فَعلیَ form, for example: عَطشان (thirsty) • they are on the اَفعَل form, for example: أحسَن (better) • they are taken from another word, for example: ثُلاث (third) Plurals are unnunated if: • they are on the مفاعل form, for example: مَساجِد (mosques) • they are on the مفاعیل form, for example: مَصابیح (lanterns) Any noun that ends in a feminine alif is unnunated, for example: سَکریَ (drunk) Unnunated nouns receive a kasrah if they are contracted to other words or if they have an alif-lām.
For example: مَرَرتُ بأفضَلِ العلماء (I passed by the best scholars). Previous Next