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    Iḍāfah (إضافة) is the Arabic grammatical construct case, mostly used to indicate possession. Iḍāfah basically entails putting one noun after another:...
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  • often make these mistakes: Separating "the X of Y" word combinations (see iḍāfah): With "Abdul": Arabic names may be written "Abdul (something)", but "Abdul"...
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    another noun immediately afterwards. In Arabic grammar, this is called إضافة iḍāfah ("annexation, addition") and in English is known as the "genitive construct"...
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  • Arabic pronunciation being /nuːrudːiːn/. Syntactically, the name is an iḍāfah (genitive construction), in full vocalization nūru d-dīni. Consequently...
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  • ٱلْمَجْرُورُ) Objects of prepositions. The second, third, fourth, etc. term of an iḍāfah (إِضَافَةٌ genitive construction). The object of a locative adverb. Elative...
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  • noun stems, historically marking the genitive case of the first noun (cf. iḍāfah), but it occurs frequently after nouns which do not take an "s" in their...
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  • the genitive case. In Arabic, the genitive construction is called إضافة ʼiḍāfah (literally "attachment") and the first and second nouns of the construction...
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  • strung together in an Iḍāfah. However, it is rare to have three or more words, except with very common or monosyllabic nouns. The Iḍāfah construct is different...
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    possessiveness, the iḍāfah can also specify or define the first term. Although there is no limit to the number of nouns in an iḍāfah, it is rare to have...
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  • they are definite and modified by another noun in an iḍāfah (Classical Arabic: إِضَافَةٌ, iḍāfah), the Arabic realization of a genitive construction....
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