GLOSSARY OF
ARABIC GRAMMAR TERMS
| الأجْوَف | Hollow Verb (Middle is a weak letter) |
| أَدَةُ التَّعْرِيف | The Definite Article |
| أدَوات (حُرُوف) الجَرّ | The Prepositions |
| أَدَوات الجزم | The particles (conditional Pronouns which introduce the verb in the Jussive Case. |
| الجَزم | The Jussive Case (w/ verbs) |
| أدَوات النَّصْب | The particles which introduce the verb in Accusative Case. |
| إِسْمٌ / أَسْمَاءٌ | Noun/ Nouns. |
| الأسْمَاءُ الخمسة | The Five Nouns (أبو, أخ , حمو, فو, ذُو) |
| أَسْمَاءُ الإسْتِفهام | The Interrogative Pronouns. |
| أَسْمَاءُ الإشارة | The Demonstrative Pronouns. |
| إِسْمُ الفاعِل | Active Participle |
| إسمُ المفعول | Passive Participle. |
| الإِسماءُ الموصُولة | The Relative Pronouns. |
| الشَّرْط | Conditional |
| جملة شرطِيَّة: | Conditional Phrase. |
| أَدَاة شَرط : | Conditional Particle. |
| الإضَافَة | A Genetive Construction |
| المُعْرَب | The vowel of the last consonant in a verb or noun is dynamic. |
| الأَفْعَالُ الخمسَة | The Imperfect verb with (you feminine singular, you masculine dual, they masc. Dual, you masc. Plural, they masc. Plural) |
| أَفْعَلَ | Comperative & Superlative |
| ألِف التَّأْنِيت الممدودة | Feminine Noun ending with Alif & Hamzah ( صَحْرَاء) |
| ألِف التَّأْنِيت المقصورة | Feminine Noun ending with (ى ) حُبْلَى , سَلْمى ….. |
| البدل | Substitute |
| المبني | The end of a word, noun, verb or particle is static. Some employs the term “indeclension”. |
| ألتَّصْغِيْر | The Diminutive Pattern. |
| التَّعَجُّب | The Verbal Exclamatory Style. |
| التَّمْييز | An Accusative of specification & comparison & measurement. |
| التَّنْوِيْن | “Nunation” (duplicate vowel of the last consonant). |
| التَّوْكِيْد | Added word for emphasis. |
| التَّفْضِيْل | Comperative & Superlative |
| حالة الجَرّ/ مجرور | Genetive (with nouns). |
| حالَة الجزم/مَجْزُومٌ | Jussive (with verbs) |
| جَمْعٌ | Plural |
| جَمع تَكْسِيْر | Broken Plural |
| جَمْع مُذَكَّر سَالِم | Masculine Sound Plural |
| جمع مُؤَنَّث سالم | Feminine Sound Plural |
| جملة إِسْمِيَّة | Equential Sentence (Nominal) |
| جُملة فعليَّة | Verbal Sentence |
| الحَال | Haal Accusative |
| حَرفُ الجَرّ | The preposition |
| حروف الزِّيادَة | The Ten Letters (one or more added to the Root of the Verb to derive different meanings.(س , أ , ل , ت, م , و, ن , ي , ه , ا ) سَأَلْتُمُونِيْهَا ( للحِفظ) |
| حُروف العطف | The conjunctions. |
| حروف الهِجَاء | The Alphabet. |
| الخبر | The Predicate |
| حَالَة الرَّفع / مرفوع | Nominative ( Verbs & Nouns). |
| سَاكِنٌ / سُكُون | Absence of Vowels |
| شِبْهُ الجُمْلَة | Prepositional Phrase |
| أسْمَاء الصِّلَة/ | Relative Pronoun |
| الأسماء المَوْصُولَة | |
| الصِِّلَةُ | Attributive Relative Clause |
| الضَّمِيْر | The Personal Pronoun. |
| العَلَم | A proper Noun |
| الفاعِل | Actor , (The doer of the verb (comes only after the verb. |
| فِعْل أَمر | Imperative |
| الفِعْلُ المَاضِي | The Perfect Tense. |
| الفعل الثُلاثِي | The Triliteral Verb (فَعَلَ) |
| الفِعْلُ اللازِم | An Intransitive Verb |
| ألفِعْلُ المُتَعَدِّي | A transitive Verb. |
| فعل ثلاثِي مُجَرَّد | الفِعْلُ المُجَرَّد |
| فِعْلٌ مُجَرَّد | الفِعْلُ المَزِيْد + one or more of the Increase Letters. |
| الفِعْلُ المُضَارِع | The Imperfect Tense ( indicates present or future Tense). |
| الفِعْلُ المُعْتَلّ | The Weak Verb |
| الفِعلُ المبنِي للمجهول | Passive verb |
| الفِعْلُ المبني للمعلوم | Active Verb |
| الفِعْلُ المَاضِي | Perfect Tense |
| لا النَّافِيَة | La of Negation. |
| مَا النَّافِية | Ma of Negation. |
| المُبْتَدَأُ | The subject of a Sequential (Nominal) Sentence. |
| المَبْنِي | With a static case-ending. |
| المبنِي للمعلوم | Active Voice |
| المَبْنِي لِلْمَجْهُول | Passive Voice |
| المثال | A Verb starting with (و , ي) |
| المُثَنَّى | Dual |
| ألمُسْتَثْنَى | Exceptive |
| أَدوَات الإسْتِثْنَاء | Exceptive Particles |
| المَصْدَر | Infinitive/ Verbal Noun |
| الإِضَافَة | Genetive Construction |
| المُضَاف | 1st Particle of the construction |
| المُضَاف إِلَيْهِ | 2nd Particle of the construction |
| المُعَرَّف | A Definite Noun |
| المفعُول بِهِ | An Accusative Object. |
| المَفْعُول فِيْهِ | Adverbal Qualification of Time or Place. |
| المَفْعُولُ المُطْلَق | Cognate Accusative (The Absolute Object.) |
| المَفْعُول مَعَهُ | (مَع واو المَعِيَّة) |
| المَفْعُول لَهُ | Adverbal Qualification of Purpose |
| ( أعْطَاهُ هَدِيَّةً ثَمِيْنَةً تَعْبِيْرَاً عن تَقْدِيْرِهِ ) | |
| ألمَقْصُور | A noun ending with long Vowel (ا) |
| ألْمَمْدُود | A noun ending with a long vowel(ا) |
| Followed by (ء). | |
| الممنوع مِن الصَّرف | An unnonated noun. |
| المنقُوص | A noun ending with (ي) |
| (إسْمُ فَاعِلٍ مُشْتَقٌّ من الفعل النَّاقِص) | |
| نَائِبُ الفاعِل | Subject of the Predicate (Substitute of the Doer of the Verb) |
| (It comes only with Passive Verbs). | |
| النِّسْبَة | Nisbah (Attributive Form) |
| ألنَّصْب / مَنْصُوب | Accusative (w/ nouns ) |
| Subjunctive (w/verb). | |
| أَلصِّفَة/ ألنَّعْت | The Adjective. |
| النَّكِرَة | A common noun |
| نُون التَّوكِيْد | ن of emphasis |
| نُونُ النِّسْوَة | ن The feminine plural pronoun |
| وَاو الجمَاعَة | وا The masculine Plural Pronoun |
| أَلِف الإثْنَيْن | ا The dual pronoun. |
| يَاء المُخَاطَبَة | ي The you feminine Pronoun. |
| هَمْزَةٌ | A glottal stop |
| وزن الفِعل | The Pattern of the verb. |