Arabic-L:LING:arabiyyuun

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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1) Subject:arabiyyuun

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Date: 20 Feb 2008
From:"Dr M. Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:arabiyyuun

I have two brief observations on this issue:

(1) Due to the lack of proper editing as well as carelessness, to say  
the
least, of most of its contributors, *al-Ahram*  is not a criterion for
correct standard Arabic.  Unfortunately, this is true of contemporary  
Arabic
press.  The sound plural ( عربيون = 'Arabiyyuna) is indeed far  
from 'sound,'
and I cannot dismiss it as a typographical error.

(2) On the other hand, the Arabic for "pan-Arabic; pan-Arabist" is  
( عروبيّ
= 'uruubiyyun; plu. عروبيون ), all derivative from (عروبة   
= pan-Arabism).
Occasionally, the epithet (  قوميّ = qawmiyyun; plu.  
قوميون ) is used in
conjunction with ( عربي ), i.e., (  قومي عربي ; plu.  
قوميون عرب ;
عرب قوميون  ), to render the sense of "pan-Arabists."

-- 
M. Deeb
English, Comparative Literature & Cultural St

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2)
Date: 20 Feb 2008
From:"Dil Parkinson" <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:arabiyyuun

The combination qawmiyyuun 'arab appears 19 times in the newspapers of  
arabiCorpus.byu.edu.  With 'arabiyyuun it appeared only in the  
examples given previously.
dil

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