sound plural

English

Etymology

Calque of Arabic جَمْع سَالِم (jamʕ sālim).

Noun

sound plural (plural sound plurals)

  1. In Semitic and other Afro-Asiatic languages, a regular plural formed by adding a suffix, without changes to the stem. An example in Arabic is مُسْلِمُونَ (muslimūna, Muslims), the plural form of مُسْلِم (muslim, Muslim), formed by adding the suffix ـُونَ (-ūna), and مُسْلِمَاتٌ (muslimātun, Muslim women), formed by adding the suffix ـَاتٌ (-ātun).
    Antonym: broken plural

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