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sound plural en · NOUN

Etymology

Calque of Arabic جَمْع سَالِم (jamʕ sālim).

Meanings

1. In Semitic and other Afro-Asiatic languages, a regular plural formed by adding a suffix, without changes to the stem. An example in Arabic is مُسْلِمُونَ (muslimūna, “Muslims”), the plural form of مُسْلِم (muslim, “Muslim”), formed by adding the suffix ـُونَ (-ūna), and مُسْلِمَاتٌ (muslimātun, “Muslim women”), formed by adding the suffix ـَاتٌ (-ātun).

Forms

Antonyms

broken plural

Translations (4)

fr pluriel externe (in Arabic and other languages, regular plural formed by adding a suffix) · de gesunder Plural (in Arabic and other languages, regular plural formed by adding a suffix) · ar جَمْع سَالِم (in Arabic and other languages, regular plural formed by adding a suffix) · it plurale sano (in Arabic and other languages, regular plural formed by adding a suffix)