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In طَلْحَةٌ آخَرُ, طَلْحَةٌ has tanwīn while آخَرُ does not. This is not a contradiction: the two words have different declensional behavior.

آخَرُ is itself a diptote adjective, so it has no tanwīn even in the nominative. A word does not inherit its neighbor’s declension class.

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Why آخَرُ has no tanwīn

Restoring Declension: Indefinite Names, Al- and Iḍāfah

In طَلْحَةٌ آخَرُ, طَلْحَةٌ has tanwīn while آخَرُ does not. This is not a contradiction: the two words have different declensional behavior.

آخَرُ is itself a diptote adjective, so it has no tanwīn even in the nominative. A word does not inherit its neighbor’s declension class.