Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
An irregular plural formed by changing the pattern of consonants and vowels inside the singular form, found in the Semitic languages and other Afroasiatic languages such as Berber. An example in Arabic is مَكَاتِب (makātib, “desks”), the plural form of مَكْتَب (maktab, “desk”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: sound plural
History
Calque of Arabic جَمْع مُكَسَّر (jamʕ mukassar).
Across languages
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