﻿ARABIC INTO PERSIAN. 2K) 



Of the FORM of ARABIC WORDS when uied in 

 the PERSIAN. 



I. All Arabic infinitives, participles, substantives, 

 and adjectives, are introduced into the Persian in the 

 form of the nominative, which throws away from the 

 last letter every species of nunnation ("/"), or short 

 vewel (<"" J )j which they may posses as Arabic word?, 

 and remain without motion ; but when their construc- 

 tion in the Persian requires them to assume the ter- 

 mination of another case, they receive it in the same 

 manner as if they were originally Persian words; 

 with the following exceptions. 



i/?. When an Arabic word terminating in <s , that 

 must be pronounced as \ *, becomes the first sub- 

 stantive in construction with another substantive fol- 

 lowing it, <s is actually changed into \ , to which short 



( ) is afterwards affixed to shew the construction. 



Ex. t5 ;*3* in construction becomes ^U^J.' , ' as (fUtJ 

 £,si\x& the petition of intercession, and so also Jy> 



a^c £>£■* &C. 



zd. Feminine Arabic substantives terminating in x, 

 when introduced into the Persian, change * , seme- 

 times into s , and sometimes into c . 



Ex. C1*ju< * friendship, being found written by the 

 same author aa^u and CXks:* . 



3^. Feminine Arabic adjectives and participles ter- 

 nating in o , when introduced into the Persian, al- 

 ways change £> into a . 



* s 



Sec Richardson's Arabic Gram. p. 109. Canon. IIT. 



