sound plurals

A form of sound plural — 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 مُسْلِمَات (muslimāt, “Muslim women”), formed by adding the suffix ـَاتٌ (-ātun).

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noun
  1. pluralplural of sound plural
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