The textbook highlights words of illness and sorrow as frequent members of Samiʿa:
سَقِمَ
Translation: He became ill.
حَزِنَ
Translation: He felt sad.
Both have kasra on the middle radical of the perfect. Their specific meanings come from their roots; the class-level observation concerns how often such semantic categories occur in this pattern.
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Samiʿa: Illness and Sorrow
Properties of the Six Basic Triliteral Forms: Contest, Transitivity, and Semantic Patterns
The textbook highlights words of illness and sorrow as frequent members of Samiʿa:
سَقِمَ
Translation: He became ill.
حَزِنَ
Translation: He felt sad.
Both have kasra on the middle radical of the perfect. Their specific meanings come from their roots; the class-level observation concerns how often such semantic categories occur in this pattern.