noun compound in arabic

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NOUN COMPOUND IN ARABIC

BY:

RANDAH TGC

JOTHI TGC 130009


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TOPICS....

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

COMPOUNDING IN ARABIC NOUN COMPOUND IN ARABIC

FORMATION OF NOUN COMPOUNDS

CONCLUSION


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ABSTRACT

Word formation in Arabic

Exocentric compounds

Noun compounds

Other types of compounds

Types of compound words

Types of compounds

Formation of Noun compounds

Conclusion


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INTRODUCTION

Semitic family of languages

Use one form of written language

Compounding Exocentric compound


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OTHER TYPES OF ARABIC COMPOUND

a) Compound particles (add ma)

Example:

/inna/ma/(only) and /rubba/ma/ (perhaps)

b)Compound adjectives (possessive)

Example:

ever young /da?im ul shabab/ (permanent of youth)

Ever-cold /za?id ul broodah/ (excessive of coldness ).


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c) Defective verb compound (/ma/ is the firstelement)

Example:

/ma/dama/ (as long as)

/ma/infakka/ (still)

interrogative pronouns

Example:/man da/ (who/m or who(m)ever?)

/ma/da/ (what? Or whatever?)


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COMPOUNDING IN ARABIC

two types :

a. within a word ( the two words produce one word).

For example: the word ras-maal (capital) is thecombination of the words, ras (head) and maal (money).

b. within a phrase or a sentence (two words produce asentence ) which is known as tarkiib (compound

nominals). For example: adam-u estiqrar-in which means none

stability


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CONSTRUCT STATE

reflects the possessive or genitive relationbetween words

Types

a.Definite nouns preceded by the definite article (Al) ((the)

in English)

b.Indefinite nouns

not preceded by (Al)

Example:


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Kitabu Al Qawaid (Grammar book )

book the Grammar

(indefinite ) (definite)

Al Qri Al Kitab (the book reader)

(the) reader (the) book

( definite ) ( definite)


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kitabu Elmin (book of knowledge )

book knowledge

(indefinite) (indefinite)

Kitabu- ha (her book )

book her (indefinite) (attached pronoun)


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Kitabu- Ali (Alis book)

book Ali

(indefinite) (proper noun)

in proper nouns :

Abu-Baker (Father of Baker)Abdullah ( Allah worshiper)


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FUSIONAL COMPOUND

Two words combined together to be

treated as one word which is not with

possessive or genetive relations

Foreign origin such as :

Hadra mout Hadra (verb) means Attend

Mout (noun) means death

both produce one noun (Hadra mout)

name of a city in Yemen.


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PREDICATIVE COMPOUND

The syntactic structure is that of

predication.

There are limited class of proper noun for

this type of compound.

Example:

Tbata sharran = an old personal name inArabic which means adabted evil.


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OTHER TYPES

Numerals from 11 to 19

Example:

The English numeral fourteen is produced

as arba' ata ashar in Arabic.

Numbers from 21 to 99

Example:Twenty-one is wahid wa isrun (one andtwenty)


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20

An attack in Hadra Moutyesterday resulted in the kill

of 20 Yemeni soldier. At that time the Interior Minister .Tens of families evacuated the city of Imran in the

northern of the country in the breakable state of peace

between al hotheen and army.


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.

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1991.1998

.

This old man at his 70s is still very active and full of life. He is eager to go

beyond what he has achieved . A composer , a pianist productive with thevery sense of the word . Now he has reachedAbo-Thabi , the third Arabic

country to hold his concerts and the first Gulf country to do so, after his

concert in Balabakin 1998 and in Cairo in 1991.


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word description final product type of

compounding

HadraMout Hadra ( attend) =verb +Mout (

death) = verb

name of a cityin Yemen

(noun)

fusional

Abu-Thabi Abu ( father) =

noun +Thabi

(deer) = noun

name of a city

in UEA (noun )

construct

wazeeru l-

dakheliyah

wazeru (minister)

= noun +Al

dakheliyah ( the

interior) = noun

title (noun) construct

Balabak Baal ( hasband)

noun + Bak

name of a city

in Lebanon

(noun )

Fusional


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FORMATION OF

NOUN

COMPOUND


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N+Adj (+Adj )OF ARABIC

For example:

al bahr al-aswad (The black Sea)


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PART OF SPEECH

Proper noun:

some original Arabic proper nouns are compounds of theformN+Adj.

For example:

alrub'u Alkhalee (The Empty Quartar) a name of a famous Arabian desert in Saudi Arabia

quarter+ Empty (noun + adjective)

Personal proper nouns:

Zarqa'u Al- Yamamah ( a name of a blue-eyezed womanwho was well known for her very strong eye sight)

Abu-Thabi ( Capital city of United Arabian Emirate)


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Geographical names:

Al-Madinah Al-Monawarah (name of a city

in Saudi Arabia)

Titles

Ameer l-bilad ( prince of the country)ra'ees al-dawlah ( presedent of the

country)


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Noun + adjective

Subject names:

Al-Keemya' Al- Hayawiyah (Biochemistry)

Other technical termsAl-am9aa' al-Galeethah (large intestine) andmenaa' Bahri (seaport)

Noun + apposited noun + adjectivejomhoryat mesr l-9arabia


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Noun + apposited N. + apposited N

ra'ees nqabat al- fannaneen (President ofthe Union of Artists)

Particle + noun

The negative particle is used as a prefix,making possible compounds like:

La'qlanee (irrational ) and la ensanee(savage)


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LOAN TRANSLATION

Some forms which are loan translations

are becoming more common in Arabic ,

Example:

Fa'r tajarub (lab rat)


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REFERENT

A feature of the referent is signalled out torefer to the referent as a whole

Examples of this:

Abu, ibn , bint, umm , sahib

Taybu 1.qalbi ( kindhearted )

katheru 1. 'taya (generous)

Daifu 1. Qalbi ( not brave )


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CONCLUSION

The rules for the formation ofcompound nouns can variesaccording to the particular language.

Combination of same or differentparts of speech.

Three types of compound nouns in

Arabic which are construct, fusionaland predicative.

All the compounds in Arabic aresemantically exocentric.


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However, in Arabic, compounding is not as pertinent asthe other languages such as English, and this can beseen in the corpus of its vocabulary.

Several reasons: Grammarian still have not come to aconsensus on defining the term accurately and applyingequivalent characteristics (Emery (1988, 34) )

Two vital definitional problems:

the terms for compounding itself

the status of the components of a compound.


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