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Ex cl*a!U. pure, is always written **a!U., as C**s£* 

 **a!L: pure friendship. 



4th. Arabic participles plural terminating in ^ , 

 although introduced into the Persian as nominatives, 

 are originally the oblique case. 



JrLx. aj^^ J cjt*^ u^ t5s **** (^_>L»L*^ the learned 

 ancients thus sjid. 



$th. When an Arabic infinitive is used in the Per- 

 sian language as an adverb, it is introduced in the 

 form of the Arabic accusative without any change. 



Ex. ISUuJ accidentally, &c. &c. 



OF ARABIC ADVERBS, PREPOSITIONS, 

 AND CONJUNCTIONS. 



I. Arabic adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions, 

 seem to be introduced into the Persian language at 

 pleasure. Of these Mr. Richardson has made a very 

 useful collection in his chapter of separate particles, 

 to which I beg leave to refer ; observing, at the same 

 time, that a knowledge of such as are most frequently 

 employed, will easily be acquired from experience 

 without any particular instructions. 



OF ARABIC COMPOUNDS. 



I. The manner in which different Arabic parts of 

 speech are employed to form a variety of compounded 

 words made use of in the Persian, is well explained 

 by Sir William Jones in his Persian Grammar; and 



