﻿208 ON THE INTRODUCTOIN' Or 



examples would have carried me far beyond the 

 limits of my present undertaking. 



OF ARABIC INFINITIVES. 



I. Their Masculine Singulars are used in the Per- 

 sian as Substantives ; and in every resoect serve the 

 same purposes, and are subject to the si me rules of 

 construction as substantives originally Persian. 



Ex. 



i. governing a fub. fol. t5^ jL "^ a :0 HP 3 ' demonstrations 



of unanimity 



x. agreeing with an ad. fol. ^ UJ jUs'xa.aJ g rea t haste 



3. agreeing with a part. pas. fol. j^o^u^d jjys'J the said writing 



1 r • 



4. nominatives to verbs, *y-i (gZ/J-ij**- 3 rny view was 



this 



5. governed by verbs, ^^V. ^ y^ bcXs*) he received 



greai delight 



6. governed by a prep. ( h * M \r^ (*^*^^' J *^*~? a ^ er perform- 



ing the duties 



7. united by a conjunction ii^*' J «J*-*^' prosperity and 



splendour 



S. rendered definite by ^^(*y J ^Jr k <5ut$.SLs:jJ the un'on that 

 _ . was between 



affixing <> 



II. Their Masculine Plurals are used in the Per- 

 sian as substantives ; and in every respect serve the 

 same purposes, and are subject to the same rules of 

 construction as substantives originally Persian. 



Ex. 



1. governing a sub. fol. * *j* O ib^l the dispositions 



of men 



