LessonsAl-Aṣwāt — Sound-words, Their Two Uses and Grammatical AnalysisQuiz

قَالَ الرَّاعِي لِلْبَعِيرِ: «نخ» — The herdsman called to the camel: “nakh.”
قَالَ: past verb.
الرَّاعِي: nominative subject, with an estimated ḍammah on the final yāʾ because of phonetic heaviness.
لِلْبَعِيرِ: preposition lām plus a genitive noun.
«نخ»: the call addressed to the animal; the whole utterance serves as reported speech.

This is an instructional sentence, not a verbatim source example.

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Parsing a herdsman’s call

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

قَالَ الرَّاعِي لِلْبَعِيرِ: «نخ» — The herdsman called to the camel: “nakh.”
قَالَ: past verb.
الرَّاعِي: nominative subject, with an estimated ḍammah on the final yāʾ because of phonetic heaviness.
لِلْبَعِيرِ: preposition lām plus a genitive noun.
«نخ»: the call addressed to the animal; the whole utterance serves as reported speech.

This is an instructional sentence, not a verbatim source example.