اِسْم مَوْصُول
ism mawsul
Relative noun (mawsul)
Nahw · syntaxWord classcore term6,420+ in the Qur'an
Also written: Ism Mawsul · Alladhi · Alladhina
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Relative noun (mawsul)
Classical definition
الاسْمُ المَوْصُولُ مَا يَدُلُّ عَلَى مُعَيَّنٍ بِوَاسِطَةِ جُمْلَةٍ تُذْكَرُ بَعْدَهُ تُسَمَّى صِلَةً، كَالَّذِي وَالَّتِي وَمَنْ وَمَا.
(الألفية)
What it is
A relative noun — الَّذِي (the one who, masculine), الَّتِي (feminine) and their plurals — connects a following sentence, called the sila, back to a noun, exactly as English “who,” “which” and “that” do. The clause after it does the describing, and that clause has no case-ending of its own.
Related terms
حَرْف (نَوْع الْكَلِمَة) · harf (naw' al-kalima)
فِعْل (نَوْع الْكَلِمَة) · fi'l (naw' al-kalima)
اِسْم (نَوْع الْكَلِمَة) · ism (naw' al-kalima)
عَلَم · 'alam
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