Arabic-L:LING:arabiyyuun
Dilworth Parkinson
dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU
Wed Feb 20 19:24:59 UTC 2008
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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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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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