LessonsImruʾ al-Qays: A Guarded Tent, the Pleiades, Objection, and Dunes (Verses 23–29)Quiz

Wa-bayḍati is genitive even though the later verb tamattaʿtu is a first-person perfect. The construction is commonly explained by an understood rubba after the wāw: wa-rubba bayḍati khidrin, “and many a / such a sheltered woman.”

Bayḍati is genitive and acts as the first member of an iḍāfah; khidrin is its genitive complement. Tamattaʿtu then narrates what the speaker says happened. Simply treating the wāw as ordinary coordination would not explain the initial genitive form fully.

PartFunction
Wa-Wāw conveying an understood rubba
BayḍatiGenitive after implied rubba; first term of construct
KhidrinGenitive second term of construct

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Wa-bayḍati: the wāw and the genitive case

Imruʾ al-Qays: A Guarded Tent, the Pleiades, Objection, and Dunes (Verses 23–29)

Wa-bayḍati is genitive even though the later verb tamattaʿtu is a first-person perfect. The construction is commonly explained by an understood rubba after the wāw: wa-rubba bayḍati khidrin, “and many a / such a sheltered woman.”

Bayḍati is genitive and acts as the first member of an iḍāfah; khidrin is its genitive complement. Tamattaʿtu then narrates what the speaker says happened. Simply treating the wāw as ordinary coordination would not explain the initial genitive form fully.

PartFunction
Wa-Wāw conveying an understood rubba
BayḍatiGenitive after implied rubba; first term of construct
KhidrinGenitive second term of construct