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Nargis also appears in the author’s list; its initial nūn resembles an imperfect-verb prefix.

مَرَرْتُ بِنَرْجِسَ. — I passed by a person named Nargis.

Used as a proper name here, نَرْجِسَ has genitive fatḥa. When the same word denotes a kind of flower, it is a common noun and the author’s particular proper-name-plus-pattern reasoning does not apply in the same way.

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Nargis: A Name Versus a Common Noun

Diptote Causes — Verb Patterns and Their Conditions

Nargis also appears in the author’s list; its initial nūn resembles an imperfect-verb prefix.

مَرَرْتُ بِنَرْجِسَ. — I passed by a person named Nargis.

Used as a proper name here, نَرْجِسَ has genitive fatḥa. When the same word denotes a kind of flower, it is a common noun and the author’s particular proper-name-plus-pattern reasoning does not apply in the same way.