نُعُوتٌattributes

Example sentences

• وبيت ماله الكذب والإسراف في المدح والهجو والتشبيه والنعوت والحماسة،

  And its stock-in-trade consists of lies, exaggeration in praise, satire, similes, descriptions, and boasting,

  وَالنُّعُوتِ — and the attributes. Joined by 'wa-', this is a broken plural ('descriptive epithets'), reshaped from its singular rather than suffixed. It adds the descriptive flourishes poets trade in to the running list, sharing its neighbours' case.

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