In linguistics, a broken plural (or internal plural) is an irregular plural form of a noun or adjective found in the Semitic languages and other Afroasiatic...

a sound plural or broken plural. The sound plural is formed by adding endings, and can be considered part of the declension. The broken plural, however...

كتابة "writing" kuttāb كُتاب or كتاب "writers" (broken plural) katabat كَتَبَة or كتبة "clerks" (broken plural) maktab مَكتَب or مكتب "desk" or "office" maktabat...

certain adverbs. For the citation form of words. For singular nouns and broken plurals, it is marked as a usually unwritten ضَمَّة ḍammah (-u) for the definite...

regular verbs, producing no indivisible clusters. Apophony Arabic grammar Broken plural Indo-European ablaut Khuzdul K-T-B Modern Hebrew grammar Nonconcatenative...

which also uses it to form approximately 41% of plurals in what is often called the broken plural. Autosegmental phonology Apophony Transfix Disfix...

king, was elevated to the generic word for "god" in the form of the broken plural "ʾämlak/ʔamlāk." During this time period the semitic term for a ruler...

eo or eu. Rural dialects also tend to employ more Semitic roots and broken plurals than Standard Maltese. In general, rural Maltese is less distant from...

often use regular plural while the wider use of the broken plural is characteristic to pre-Hilalian dialects. The regular masculine plural is formed with...

is derived from Arabic: صَحَارَى, romanized: ṣaḥārā /sˤaħaːraː/, a broken plural form of ṣaḥrā' (صَحْرَاء /sˤaħraːʔ/), meaning "desert". The desert covers...