Al-Aṣwāt — Sound-words, Their Two Uses and Grammatical Analysis

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• What does the source illustrate with «غاق»?
• What is «نخ» used for in the book?
• What is the key difference between the two book examples?
• What grammatical construction is «صَوْتُ الْغُرَابِ»?
• In «هَذَا صَوْتُ الْغُرَابِ», what is «صَوْتُ»?
• Why does «الْغُرَابِ» have kasrah in that sentence?
• In «قَالَ الصَّبِيُّ: غاق», what is «الصَّبِيُّ»?
• How should the quoted cry be understood after «قال»?
• Why distinguish «نخ» from the imperative «أَنِخْ»?
• What is «أَنَاخَ» in the example?
• Identify the subject of «أَنَاخَ الرَّاعِي الْبَعِيرَ».
• What is the function of «الْبَعِيرَ»?
• What marks the nominative of «الرَّاعِي»?
• Why is «صَوْتَ» accusative in «سَمِعْتُ صَوْتَ الْغُرَابِ»?
• In «سَمِعْتُ», what is «تُ»?
• What kind of verb is «حُكِيَ»?
• What is «صَوْتٌ» in «حُكِيَ بِهِ صَوْتٌ»?
• What does the pronoun «هِ» in «بِهِ» refer to?
• What is the syntactic position of «هِ» in «بِهِ»?
• What is the case of «صَوْتِ» in «لِصَوْتِ الْغُرَابِ»?
• What is «إِنَاخَةِ» in the source phrase?
• What does the lām convey in «لِإِنَاخَةِ الْبَعِيرِ»?
• Which item should not be confused with the call «نخ»?
• Which pair correctly identifies both source examples?
• Does «صَوْتُ الْغُرَابِ» itself imitate the crow’s sound?
• A «نخ» uttered to make an animal kneel belongs to which class?
• Under which major section does this chapter appear?
• Which is a sound grammatical principle?
• What is «هَذَا» in the sentence?
• What does the source’s animal-calling clause illustrate?
• What independent chapter follows al-Aṣwāt?
• If an ordinary noun changes case endings, which contrast is being illustrated?
• Parse «لِلْبَعِيرِ» in the herdsman example.
• Does merely quoting «غاق» impose a new case ending on it?
• The book uses «غاق» to imitate the crow’s call.
• In the book, «نخ» mimics the camel’s natural call.
• «صَوْتُ الْغُرَابِ» can be an iḍāfah construction.
• In «قَالَ الصَّبِيُّ: غاق», «الصَّبِيُّ» is the subject.
• «صَوْتٌ» is an accusative object in «حُكِيَ بِهِ صَوْتٌ».
• «صَوْتِ» is genitive after lām in «لِصَوْتِ الْغُرَابِ».
• «إِنَاخَة» is a verbal noun, whereas «نخ» can be the call used for that action.
• Because «نخ» has an imperative-like meaning, it can be conjugated like a regular imperative verb.
• Every ordinary noun describing animal sounds is necessarily a sound-word.
• The next chapter on printed page 83 after al-Aṣwāt is al-Murakkabāt.