sound plural
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English
Etymology
Calque of Arabic جَمْع سَالِم (jamʕ sālim).
Noun
sound plural (plural sound plurals)
- In Semitic and other Afro-Asiatic languages, a regular plural formed by adding a suffix, without changes to the stem. An example in Arabic is مُسْلِمُونَ (muslimūna, “Muslims”), the plural form of مُسْلِم (muslim, “Muslim”), formed by adding the suffix ـُونَ (-ūna), and مُسْلِمَاتٌ (muslimātun, “Muslim women”), formed by adding the suffix ـَاتٌ (-ātun).
- Antonym: broken plural
Translations
in Arabic and other languages, regular plural formed by adding a suffix
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