زَيْنَبُ has no feminine tāʾ, but as a woman’s name it has semantic femininity. Proper-name status and semantic femininity make it a diptote.
مَرَرْتُ بِزَيْنَبَ — I passed by Zaynab.
زَيْنَبَ: syntactically genitive after bi-, marked by fatḥa.
This revisits the prior lesson’s cause, now identifying its combination with ʿalamiyya.
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Definiteness and Proper-Name Status in Diptote Rules
زَيْنَبُ has no feminine tāʾ, but as a woman’s name it has semantic femininity. Proper-name status and semantic femininity make it a diptote.
مَرَرْتُ بِزَيْنَبَ — I passed by Zaynab.
زَيْنَبَ: syntactically genitive after bi-, marked by fatḥa.
This revisits the prior lesson’s cause, now identifying its combination with ʿalamiyya.