Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Elementary Arabic Morphology 2 Sound and Unsound What is the form for a triliteral verb? What is a double-letter verb? What is a verb with a glottal stop in its root? How many kinds of verbs with a glottal stop in its root are there? How many kinds of unsound verbs are there? What is a verb that has two weak letters called? When is a verb truly unsound or doubled? Or when does it truly have a glottal stop? The form of a triliteral verb is: فَعَلَ.
The first letter is called the first root letter, the second is called the second root letter and the third is called the third root letter. A double-letter verb is a verb that has two identical letters in its root. For example: فَرَّ (he ran away). A verb that has a glottal stop is a verb that has a glottal stop in its root. For example: أکَلَ (he ate).
There are three types of verbs that have a glottal stop in their root: • Glottal stop of the first root letter: أخَذَ (he took) • Glottal stop of the second root letter: سَألَ (he asked) • Glottal stop of the third root letter: نَشَأ (he emerged) There are three types of weak verbs: • Quasi-sound verb: when the weak letter is in the first root letter: وَعَدَ (he promised) • Hollow verb: when the weak letter is in the second root letter: قَالَ (he said) • Defective verb: when the weak letter is in the third root letter: دَعَا (he supplicated) A verb that has two weak letters is called a cluster verb.
There are two kinds of cluster verbs: • A cluster verb that has a weak letter in the first and third root letters. For example: وَفَی (he completed) • A cluster verb that has a weak letter in the second and third root letters. For example: شَوی (it roasted) A verb truly has a glottal stop or is truly a double-letter verb when the glottal stop or the two identical letters are in the root of the verb, not including added letters.
So: • انطَلَقَ this verb does not have a glottal stop because its root is طلق. • قَدَّمَ this verb is not a double-letter verb because its root is قدم. • قاتَلَ This verb is not an unsound verb because its root is قتل. Previous Next