The miut amil, and Shurhoo Miut amil; two elementary treatises on Arabic syntax

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 Excerpt: ...consider as compnhending all nouns of time, such as M ) tic. and this is O O „ also the opinion of Ibno Mulik in his Jaj«,j. I One peculiarity attending it is, that in the sentence in which it is employed, either the subject, OT predicate mast be understood: the common practice of the language seems to authorise there-V jection of the subject, as (joU. A.2,.0, "This is not the time for flight." In which ar" J is "i i understood, but on the other hand several grammarians contend, that it must be the predicate. The point is not worth discussing, and therefore we shall let it rest. &i by some is derived from the infinitive.J JW, damage, Synonymous with tttJo and is re. to „, gularly declinable as CjJL,. This derivation is plausible enough and is attributed to,. I iai,_i.j Aboozuhi Khushunce. LocKt says it wa» long seriously disputed whether a bat was a bird or not. i This is the interpretation given by Suidai, and may perhaps be disputed. «. annotation. Others again refer it to U-ft1 in the past tense, tbe Ya being changed into Vlif, and u« into lj these letters being considered proximate representatives of the same sound. Iac J Uboo Obueduh, and Sjl jiJ I»o Turawuh, imagine it to be compounded of 5( and the letter/Ij redundant in some other word, as in the following example from the Qooran,-«..-o w»-u-but this is ridiculous; the-Ta is not redundant in the word it belongs to the 1 ' t-"i' verb o nd must hare been joined to the word by the-carelessness of some transcriber. 'I It if written thus erroneously in Maracci. The author of the Mooghnee has entered into minute details regarding its government and the conditions attending its government, bnt they do not appear to me of sufficient...