Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books A Hundred and One Rules in Arabic Grammar! غيرُ ======== غيرُ is a noun which will create Idaafa when it is used with another noun (a). It also serves to negate nouns and adjectives and may be translated "non-," "un-," and so on. When it is used in such a Syntactical Environment (i.e., with adjectives) it creates what we call "Phony/Fake Idaafa," where the second term is an adjective (b). a. حَضَرَ الاجتماعَ الطلابُ وغَيرُ الطلابِ.
Students and non-students attended the meeting b. کانَ عَمَلـُهُ غَيرَ مَقبول ٍ. His act was unacceptable. Previous Next