نَظَرْتُ إِلَى مَصَابِيحَ — I looked at lamps.
نَظَرْتُ: past tense verb with first-person subject pronoun.
إِلَى: preposition.
مَصَابِيحَ: genitive noun with fatḥa in place of kasra, because it has an ultimate broken-plural pattern.
The preposition determines its genitive status despite the visible fatḥa.
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Diptote Causes — Ultimate Broken-Plural Patterns
نَظَرْتُ إِلَى مَصَابِيحَ — I looked at lamps.
نَظَرْتُ: past tense verb with first-person subject pronoun.
إِلَى: preposition.
مَصَابِيحَ: genitive noun with fatḥa in place of kasra, because it has an ultimate broken-plural pattern.
The preposition determines its genitive status despite the visible fatḥa.