Arabic vocabulary
إِسْتِفْهَامٌinterrogative particle
How to say “interrogative particle” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
الْآيَةُ وَهَذَا إِسْتِفْهَامٌ نَفْيٌ وَإِنْكَارُ أَيٍّ
The verse: this is the interrogative particle expressing negation and repudiation.
إِسْتِفْهَامٌ — interrogative particle. A noun naming a grammatical category, here functioning as the predicate 'is a question-form'. Standing as what 'this' is, it takes the indefinite subject case in this defining statement.
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