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desinential inflection

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

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ʾiʿrāb: a number of nominal, adjectival, and verbal inflectional endings, which are an integral part of Qur'anic and Classical Arabic, although they are generally not written and not pronounced in pausa or written but not pronounced.

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  • Arabic: إِعْرَاب (ʔiʕrāb) — system of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic
  • Hindi: एराब (erāb) — system of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic
  • Indonesian: ikrab — system of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic
  • Kazakh: иғраб (iğrab) — system of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic
  • Malay: ikrab — system of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic
  • Pashto: اعراب (e'rāb) — system of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic
  • Dari: اِعْرَاب (i'rāb) — system of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic
  • Iranian Persian: اِعْراب (e'râb) — system of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic
  • Russian: и’ра́б (i’ráb) — system of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic
  • Russian: ира́б (iráb) — system of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic
  • Tajik: иъроб (i'rob) — system of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic
  • Urdu: اِعْراب (i'rāb) — system of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic