| Accord., | for according. |
| Accus. case, | for accusative case, نَصْبٌ. |
| Act., | for active, مَبْنِىٌّ لِلْفَاعِلِ or لِلْمَعْلُومِ. |
| Act. part. n., | for active participial noun, اِسْمُ فَاعِلٍ. |
| Adv. n., | for adverbial noun, ظَرْفٌ, and sometimes صِفَةٌ; of place, ظَرْفُ مَكَانٍ; and of time, ظَرْفُ زَمَانٍ. |
| Agent, | فَاعِلٌ. |
| Analogous, | or regular, قِيَاسِىٌّ and مَقِيسٌ. |
| Analogy, | فِيَاسٌ. |
| Anomalous, | or irregular, غَيْرُ قِيَاسِىٍّ and غَيْرُ مَقِيسٍ or شَاذٌّ (see “Dev.”) or نَادِرٌ (see “Extr.”). |
| Aor., | for aorist, مُضَارِعٌ. |
| Aplastic, | applied to a noun and to a verb, جَامِدٌ. |
| App., | for apparently. |
| Appositive, | تَابِعٌ. |
| Attribute, | or predicate, مُسْنَدٌ and خَبَرٌ. |
| Broken pl., | for broken plural, جَمْعٌ مُكَسَّرٌ. |
| Coll. gen. n., | for collective generic noun, اِسْمُ جِنْسٍ جَمْعِىٌّ; also called a lexicological plural, جَمْعٌ لُغَوِىٌّ. |
| Complement | of a prefixed noun, مُضَافٌ إِلَيْهِ. |
| Complete, | i. e. attributive, verb, فِعْلٌ تَامٌّ. |
| Conj., | for conjugation, بَابٌ. |
| Conjunct, | مَوْصُولٌ: conjunct noun, مَوْصُولٌ ٱسْمِىٌّ: conjunct particle, مَوْصُولٌ حَرْفِىٌّ. |
| Conjunction, | حَرْفُ عَطْفٍ and حَرْفٌ عَاطِفٌ. |
| Contr., | for contrary. |
| Conventional | term, اِصْطِلَاحٌ. ― Conventional language, عُرْفٌ. |
| Corroborative, | تَأْكِيدٌ and تَوْكِيدٌ. |
| Decl., | for declinable, مُعْرَبٌ: perfectly decl., مَصْرُوفٌ and مُنْصَرِفٌ: imperfectly decl., غَيْرُ مَصْرُوفٍ and غَيْرُ مُنْصَرِفٍ. |
| Defective verb, | i. e. having و or ى for the last radical letter, فِعْلٌ نَاقِصٌ. |
| Dev., | for deviating; as in the phrase, Deviating from the constant course of speech (with respect to analogy, or rule, or with respect to usage); شَاذٌّ. This term and نَادِرٌ (see “Extr.”) are often used in lexicons indiscriminately. |
| Dial., | for dialect, لُغَةٌ. |
| Dial. var. of, | for dialectic variant of, لُغَةٌ فِى. |
| Dim., | for diminutive, مُصَغَّرٌ. |
| Enunciative, | خَبَرٌ. |
| Epithet, | and epithetic phrase, نَعْتٌ and وَصْفٌ and صِفَةٌ. |
| Ex., | for example. |
| Expl., | for explained. |
| Expos., | for exposition, شَرْحٌ and تَفْسِيرٌ: the latter particularly applied to an exposition of the Ḳur-án. |
| Extr., | for extraordinary (with respect to analogy or rule, with respect to usage), نَادِرٌ. (See “Dev.”) |
| Fem., | for feminine, مُؤَنَّثٌ. |
| Fut., | for future, مُسْتَقْبَلٌ. |
| Gen. case, | for genitive case, خَفْضٌ and جَرٌّ. |
| Gen. n., | for generic noun, اِسْمُ جِنْسٍ. |
| Hollow verb, | فِعْلٌ أَجْوَفُ. |
| Homonym, | مُشْتَرَكٌ for مُشْتَرَكٌ فِيهِ. |
| I. q., | for idem quod. |
| Ideal subst. | (as opposed to real subst.), اِسْمُ مَعْنًى, or simply مَعْنًى. |
| Imitative sequent, | إِتْباَعٌ. |
| Imperative, | أَمْرٌ. |
| Inchoative, | مُبْتَدَأٌ. |
| Incomplete, | i. e. non-attributive, verb, فِعْلٌ نَاقِصٌ or فِعْلٌ غَيْرُتَامٍّ. |
| Indecl., | for indeclinable, مَبْنِىٌّ. |
| Inf. n., | for infinitive noun, مَصْدَرٌ. Inf. n. of unity, مَصْدَرٌ لِلْمَرَّةِ. Inf. n. of modality, مَصْدَرٌ لِلنَّوْعِ. |
| Instrumental noun, | اِسْمُ آلَةٍ. |
| Intrans., | for intransitive, غَيْرُ مُتَعَدٍّ and لَازِمٌ. |
| Irreg., | for irregular: see “Anomalous.” |
| Lit., | for literally. |
| Maḥmooz verb, | فِعْلٌ مَهْمُوزٌ. |
| Manṣoob aor., | for manṣoob aorist, مُضَارِعٌ مَنْصُوبٌ. |
| Masc., | for masculine, مُذَكَّرٌ. |
| Measure, | وَزْنٌ. |
| Mejzoom aor., | for mejzoom aorist, مُضَارِعٌ مَجْزُومٌ. |
| Metaphor, | اِسْتِعَارَةٌ. |
| Metaphorical, | اِسْتِعَارِىٌّ. |
| Metonymy, | كِنَايَةٌ. |
| N., | for noun, اِسْمٌ. |
| N. un., | for noun of unity, وَاحِدَةٌ and وَاحِدٌ. |
| Nom. case, | for nominative case, رَفْعٌ. |
| Objective | complement of a verb, مَفْعُولٌ or مَفْعُولٌ بِهِ. |
| Part. n.: | see “act. part. n.” and “pass. part. n.” |
| Particle, | حَرْفٌ. |
| Pass., | for passive, مَبْنِىٌّ لِلْمَفْعُولِ or لِلْمَجْهُولِ. |
| Pass. part. n., | for passive participial noun, اِسْمُ مَفْعُولٍ. |
| Perfect pl., | for perfect plural, جَمْعٌ سَالِمٌ; also called a sound pl., جَمْعٌ صَحِيحٌ. |
| Perfect verb, | i. e. one which has not two radical letters alike, nor has ء nor و nor ى for one of its radical letters, فِعْلٌ سَالِمٌ. (See also “Sound verb.”) |
| Pers., | for person (of a verb). |
| Pl., | for plural, جَمْعٌ. |
| Pl. of pauc., | for plural of paucity, جَمْعُ فِلَّةٍ. |
| Pl. of mult., | for plural of multitude, جَمْعُ كَثْرَةٍ. |
| Pl. pl., | for plural of a plural, جَمْعُ جَمْعٍ. |
| Possessive noun | or epithet (such as تَامِرٌ and لَابِنٌ &c.), اِسْمٌ عَلَى النَّسَبِ (a kind of relative noun). |
| Post-classical, | مُوَلَّدٌ and مُحْدَثٌ. |
| Predicate: | see “Attribute.” |
| Prefixed noun, | مُضَافٌ. |
| Prep., | for preposition, حَرْفُ جَرٍّ, and sometimes صِفَةٌ. |
| Pret., | for preterite, مَاضٍ. |
| Prov., | for proverb, مَثَلٌ. |
| Q., | for quadriliteral-radical verb, فِعْلٌ رُبَاعِىٌّ. |
| Q. Q., | for quasi-quadriliteral-radical verb, فِعْلٌ مُلْحَقٌ بِالرُّبَاعِىِّ. |
| Q. v., | for quod vide. |
| Quasi-coordinate, | مُلْحَقٌ see art. لحق. |
| Quasi-inf. n., | for quasi-infinitive noun, اِسْمُ مَصْدَرٍ and اِسْمٌ لِلْمَصْدَرِ. |
| Quasi-pass., | for quasi-passive, مُطَاوِعٌ. |
| Quasi-pl. n., | for quasi-plural noun, اِسْمُ جَمْعٍ. |
| Quasi-sound verb, | i. e. one having و or ى for its first radical letter, فِعْلٌ مِثَالٌ. |
| R. Q., | for reduplicative quadriliteral-radical verb, فِعْلٌ رُبَاعَىٌّ مُضَاعَفٌ. |
| Real subst. | (as opposed to ideal subst.), اِسْمُ عَيْنٍ or simply عَيْنٌ, and اِسْمُ ذَاتٍ or simply ذَاتٌ. |
| Receptacular noun, | اِسْمُ وِعَآءٍ. |
| Reg., | for regular: see “Analogous.” |
| Rel. n., | for relative noun, اِسْمٌ مَنْسُوبٌ or نِسْبَةٌ. |
| Simple subst. | (as opposed to inf. n.), اِسْمٌ. |
| Sing., | for singular, مُفْرَدٌ and وَاحِدٌ. |
| Sound pl., | for sound plural: see “Perfect pl.” |
| Sound verb, | i. e. one which is not of the class termed “perfect,” but which has not و nor ى for one of its radical letters: or, as used in the ʼEyn and several other lexicons, one that has not و nor ى nor ء for one of its radical letters: فِعْلٌ صَحِيحٌ (See “Perfect verb.”) |
| Specificative, | or discriminative, تَمْيِيزٌ. |
| State, | denotative of, حَالٌ. |
| Subject | (as correlative of attribute or predicate), مُسْنَدٌ إِلَيْهِ. |
| Subst., | for substantive, اِسْمٌ. |
| Substitute, | بَدَلٌ. |
| Syll. signs, | for syllabical signs, شَكْلٌ. |
| Syn., | for synonym and synonymous, مُرَادِفٌ and مُتَرَادِفٌ. |
| Syn. with, | for synonymous with, لُغَةٌ فِى. |
| Trad., | for tradition, حَدِيثٌ. |
| Trans. | for transitive, مُتَعَدٍّ and وَاقِعٌ. |
| Transposition, | فَلْبٌ. Formed by transposition, مَقْلُوبٌ. |
| Tropical, | مَجَازٌ and مَجَازِىٌّ. |
| Unsound verb, | i. e. one having و or ى for one of its radical letters: or, as used in the ʼEyn and several other lexicons, one having و or ى or ء for one of its radical letters: فِعْلٌ مُعْتَلٌّ. |
| V., | for verb, فِعْلٌ. |
| Verbal noun, | اِسْمُ فِعْلٍ. |
| ‡ | means asserted to be tropical. |
| ‡‡ | means asserted to be doubly tropical. |
| † | means supposed by me to be tropical. |
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