Book exercise: forms of asmaʿ

Ism al-Tafḍīl: Meaning, Eight Forms, Patterns and Use

The book asks the learner to give the full paradigm of أَسْمَعُ. Using the root s-m-ʿ in the eight patterns yields:

Word / formMeaning / explanation
أَسْمَعُmasculine singular.
أَسْمَعَانِmasculine dual.
أَسْمَعُونَmasculine sound plural.
أَسَامِعُmasculine broken plural.
سُمْعَىfeminine singular.
سُمْعَيَانِfeminine dual.
سُمْعَيَاتٌfeminine sound plural.
سُمَعٌfeminine broken plural.

These are morphological exercise forms; frequency in living Arabic varies by form.