In today’s #everdayarabic, we’re going to look at how how words change their meanings and inflections (ṣarf/صرف) as their morphological forms (awzān ṣarfiyyah/أوزان صرفية) change. Let’s take a look at something from ‘Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī, a 5th Century (Hijrī) grammarian and his book, Kitāb al-Miftāḥ fī al-Ṣarf (The Key to Understanding Morphology):
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