Arabic-L:LING:Broken plurals of foreign words

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1) Subject:Broken plurals of foreign words

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Date: 20 Feb 2013
From:David Wilmsen <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:Broken plurals of foreign words

There is also

مطران / مطارنة
'metropolitan/s'

On a more prosaic level:

نمرة / نِمَر
'number/s'

David Wilmsen
Associate Professor of Arabic
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages
American University of Beirut
Bliss Street, Hamra
Beirut, Lebanon
1107 2020
tel:  +961-1-350000 ext. 3850/1

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