LessonsAl-Murakkabāt — Compound Numerals, the Twelve Exception and Declining BaalbekQuiz

غُلَامُ زَيْدٍ — Zayd’s servant.
غُلَامُ: first term of iḍāfah, declined according to its sentence role.
زَيْدٍ: genitive second term with kasrah.

بَعْلَبَكُّ — a compound proper name.
بَعْلَ: first component built on fatḥ.
بَكُّ: second component nominative as a diptote.

Both look multi-part, but one is a genitive construction, while the other is a single compound proper name.

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Proper-name compound versus iḍāfah

Al-Murakkabāt — Compound Numerals, the Twelve Exception and Declining Baalbek

غُلَامُ زَيْدٍ — Zayd’s servant.
غُلَامُ: first term of iḍāfah, declined according to its sentence role.
زَيْدٍ: genitive second term with kasrah.

بَعْلَبَكُّ — a compound proper name.
بَعْلَ: first component built on fatḥ.
بَكُّ: second component nominative as a diptote.

Both look multi-part, but one is a genitive construction, while the other is a single compound proper name.