LessonsVerbal Embellishments: Complete and Incomplete Jinās, Reversal, Derivation and Quasi-DerivationQuiz

«كلُّكم قد أخذ الجامَ ولا جامَ لنا ... ما الذي ضرَّ مديرَ الجامِ لو جاملنا»
All of you received a cup and none was ours; what would the keeper of the cup have lost by showing us some favor?

The sequence «لو جاملنا» is related in sound to neighboring expressions whose word boundaries and written form differ. The listener hears a connected pattern that belongs to different lexical divisions.

Classification calls for examining the entire relevant sound sequence, not merely a shared ending. In one subtype the spelling of the compound closely matches; in mafrūq the division in writing is conspicuously different.

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Mafrūq: difference in written segmentation

Verbal Embellishments: Complete and Incomplete Jinās, Reversal, Derivation and Quasi-Derivation

«كلُّكم قد أخذ الجامَ ولا جامَ لنا ... ما الذي ضرَّ مديرَ الجامِ لو جاملنا»
All of you received a cup and none was ours; what would the keeper of the cup have lost by showing us some favor?

The sequence «لو جاملنا» is related in sound to neighboring expressions whose word boundaries and written form differ. The listener hears a connected pattern that belongs to different lexical divisions.

Classification calls for examining the entire relevant sound sequence, not merely a shared ending. In one subtype the spelling of the compound closely matches; in mafrūq the division in writing is conspicuously different.