مُذَكَّر
mudhakkar
Masculine
Sarf · morphologyGendercore term24,401+ in the Qur'an
Also written: Mudhakkar and Mu'annath · Masculine and feminine · Jins
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Masculine
Classical definition
المُذَكَّرُ مَا خَلَا مِنْ عَلَامَةِ التَّأْنِيثِ وَصَحَّ أَنْ تُشِيرَ إِلَيْهِ بِقَوْلِكَ «هَذَا».
(شذا العرف)
What it is
Every Arabic ism is either masculine or feminine — there is no neuter “it.” The masculine (mudhakkar) is the base form and carries no special marker. Gender matters because everything that describes or refers to a noun — adjectives, pronouns, demonstratives — must agree with it, so it quietly governs much of how a sentence is built.
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