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بَعْلَبَكُّ مَدِينَةٌ.
Translation: Baʿlabakk is a city.

بَعْلَبَكُّ: mubtadaʾ, nominative with ḍamma; being a diptote proper name, it has no tanwīn.
مَدِينَةٌ: khabar, nominative with ḍamma and tanwīn.

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Baʿlabakk in the Nominative

Diptote Causes — Compounding and Its Conditions

بَعْلَبَكُّ مَدِينَةٌ.
Translation: Baʿlabakk is a city.

بَعْلَبَكُّ: mubtadaʾ, nominative with ḍamma; being a diptote proper name, it has no tanwīn.
مَدِينَةٌ: khabar, nominative with ḍamma and tanwīn.