LessonsDiptote Causes — Verb Patterns and Their ConditionsQuiz

Remember the two verb-pattern situations: a specifically verbal pattern transferred into a proper name, or a shared pattern meeting the author’s prefix-letter and feminine-ending tests.

The source examples are Shammar, Ḍarab, Aḥmad, Yashkur, Taghlib and Nargis.

An ordinary diptote name is nominative with ḍamma, accusative with fatḥa and genitive with fatḥa, without tanwīn.

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Diptote Causes — Verb Patterns and Their Conditions

Remember the two verb-pattern situations: a specifically verbal pattern transferred into a proper name, or a shared pattern meeting the author’s prefix-letter and feminine-ending tests.

The source examples are Shammar, Ḍarab, Aḥmad, Yashkur, Taghlib and Nargis.

An ordinary diptote name is nominative with ḍamma, accusative with fatḥa and genitive with fatḥa, without tanwīn.