Why paraphrase ghulāmu Zaydin as ghulāmun li-Zaydin?
Al-Majrūrāt — Semantic and Formal Iḍāfah
- To clarify the implied semantic relation
- To claim lām is overt in the source
- To make Zayd a subject
- To turn ghulām into a verb
Al-Majrūrāt — Semantic and Formal Iḍāfah