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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

stated plural formations were similar to Arabic's broken plurals, which would make for many irregular plurals; two examples are known: baruk, the plural of...

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

“left-handed, left”, ḥawlíy “cross-eyed”, safʿíy “black-eared (goat)” Broken plural *CaCCā: nōmiy “asleep (pl.)”, mōtiy ~ máwtiy “dead (pl.)” In the dialects...

Laporte (2013), Pattern-and-root inflectional morphology: the Arabic broken plural |year= Alexis Amid Neme and Eric Laporte (2015), Do computer scientists...

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

point had the broken plural, any vestigial forms that may remain have been extended with the strong plural endings. The dual and strong plural endings were...

There are many broken plurals (also called internal plurals), in which the consonantal root of the singular is changed. These plural patterns are shared...

English and many other languages present number categories of singular or plural. Some languages also have a dual, trial and paucal number or other arrangements...

the sound feminine plural, as well as the singular and broken plural of most nouns). Furthermore, -ū of the masculine sound plural is assimilated to -ī...

Tigre and Geʼez (as well as Arabic), noun plurals may be formed through internal changes ("broken" plural) as well as through the addition of suffixes...

masculine nouns have a "broken" plural form ending in a tāʾ marbūṭa; for example أستاذ ustādh ("male professor") has the plural أساتذة asātidha, which...

Arabic loanwords, including the name of the language (سَوَاحِلي sawāḥilī, a plural adjectival form of an Arabic word meaning 'of the coasts'). The loanwords...

(a new singular extracted by treating the Persian form as an Arabic broken plural), moves and captures like the pawns in chess, but not moving two squares...

argue for the older classification, based on the distinctive feature of broken plurals. Some linguists also argue that Eteocypriot was a Northwest Semitic...

newspaper. The word "magazine" derives from Arabic makhāzin (مخازن), the broken plural of makhzan (مخزن) meaning "depot, storehouse" (originally military storehouse);...

/-ah/ before a pause. Plural is indicated either through endings (the sound plural) or internal modification (the broken plural). Definite nouns include...

faːtuːra (plural: fwaːtiːr), from the Italian fattura, invoice. The plural of loanwords may be sound or broken. Several patterns of broken plurals exist and...

Alexis (2013). "Pattern-and-root inflectional morphology: the Arabic broken plural". Language Sciences. 40 (2): 221–250. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.697.1138. doi:10...

Rabbi Qafih's movement the name Daradʻah, a word which is an Arabic broken plural made-up of the Hebrew words Dör Deʻoh, and which means "Generation of...

long been debated. It would appear that Twārəg is derived from the broken plural of Tārgi, a name whose former meaning was "inhabitant of Targa", the...