desinential inflection

noun

ʾiʿrāb: a number of nominal, adjectival, and verbal inflectional endings, which are an integral part of Qur'anic and Classical Arabic, although they are generally not written and not pronounced in pausa or written but not pronounced.

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Meanings

noundesinential inflection (plural desinential inflections)

plural desinential inflections

  1. grammarʾiʿrāb: a number of nominal, adjectival, and verbal inflectional endings, which are an integral part of Qur'anic and Classical Arabic, although they are generally not written and not pronounced in pausa or written but not pronounced.

Translations

Arabic إِعْرَاب
  • إِعْرَاب (ʔiʕrāb)system of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic
Hindi एराब
  • एराब (erāb)system of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic
Indonesian ikrab
  • ikrabsystem of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic
Malay ikrab
  • ikrabsystem of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic
Russian и’ра́б, ира́б
  • и’ра́б (i’ráb)system of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic
  • ира́б (iráb)system of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic
Urdu اِعْراب
  • اِعْراب (i'rāb)system of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic
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