LessonsDiptote Causes — Foreign Origin and Its ConditionsQuiz

وَزَائِدَةً عَلَى ثَلَاثَةِ أَحْرُفٍ، أَوْ ثُلَاثِيًّا مُتَحَرِّكَ الْأَوْسَطِ
Translation: And more than three letters, or three letters with a vowelled middle letter.

These are alternative structural conditions: a foreign proper name may have more than three letters, or be a three-letter form with a vowelled middle letter.

Nūḥ is three letters but its middle letter is sākin; therefore, the book treats it as fully declinable.

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Second Condition: Length or Middle Vowel

Diptote Causes — Foreign Origin and Its Conditions

وَزَائِدَةً عَلَى ثَلَاثَةِ أَحْرُفٍ، أَوْ ثُلَاثِيًّا مُتَحَرِّكَ الْأَوْسَطِ
Translation: And more than three letters, or three letters with a vowelled middle letter.

These are alternative structural conditions: a foreign proper name may have more than three letters, or be a three-letter form with a vowelled middle letter.

Nūḥ is three letters but its middle letter is sākin; therefore, the book treats it as fully declinable.