فَإِنْ كَانَ مُفْرَدًا مَعْرِفَةً، يُبْنَى عَلَى عَلَامَةِ الرَّفْعِ، كَالضَّمَّةِ وَنَحْوِهَا، نَحْوَ: «يَا زَيْدُ!» وَ«يَا رَجُلُ!» وَ«يَا زَيْدَانِ!» وَ«يَا زَيْدُونَ!».
Translation: When a vocative is a single definite expression (not an iḍāfa or quasi-iḍāfa), it is built on the sign of the nominative, as the listed forms show.
Here “single” means not a construct or quasi-construct vocative, not necessarily singular in number; the author includes dual and plural examples.
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Al-Munādā: Vocative Types and Rules
فَإِنْ كَانَ مُفْرَدًا مَعْرِفَةً، يُبْنَى عَلَى عَلَامَةِ الرَّفْعِ، كَالضَّمَّةِ وَنَحْوِهَا، نَحْوَ: «يَا زَيْدُ!» وَ«يَا رَجُلُ!» وَ«يَا زَيْدَانِ!» وَ«يَا زَيْدُونَ!».
Translation: When a vocative is a single definite expression (not an iḍāfa or quasi-iḍāfa), it is built on the sign of the nominative, as the listed forms show.
Here “single” means not a construct or quasi-construct vocative, not necessarily singular in number; the author includes dual and plural examples.