al-Maqsur wa al-Mamdud al-Mansub li Abi Umar al-Zahid

al-Maqsur wa al-Mamdud al-Mansub li Abi Umar al-Zahid (The Shortened and Prolonged Nouns Attributed to Abu Umar al-Zahid) is an Arabic philological treatise attributed to the lexicographer Abu Umar Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahid al-Mutarriz, known as Ghulam Thalab (261–345 AH / 875–957 CE) al-Maqsur wa al-Mamdud al…+1. The text focuses on classifying Arabic nouns ending in shortened alphanumeric forms (al-maqṣūr) and prolonged forms (al-mamdūd), detailing their vocalization, meanings, and orthographic rules al-Maqsur wa al-Mamdud al…+1.

Structure and Content

The treatise is organized into thematic sections according to morphological shape, vowel patterns of the first radical, and spelling conventions:

• Shortened nouns (al-ḥurūf al-maqṣūrah): The text opens with shortened nouns spelled with the letter yāʾ (mimmā yuktab bi-l-yāʾ), recording lexical entries such as hawā al-nafs (desire of the soul), nadā al-arḍ (dew of the earth), and shajā al-ḥuzn (sorrow), and closes the grouping with the specification that all these words are written with yāʾ al-Maqsur wa al-Mamdud al…. A following subsection (wa-min al-maqṣūr ʿalā alfāẓihā) lists further shortened words alongside brief glosses and spelling distinctions, such as al-ḥafā (written with yāʾ), al-naqā (a sand dune, which may be written with either yāʾ or alif because its dual is naqawān or naqayān), and al-malā (spelled with alif) al-Maqsur wa al-Mamdud al….
• Prolonged nouns with an initial kasrah (ḥurūf al-madd al-mustaʿmal al-makhfūḍ al-awwal): Covers common prolonged nouns beginning with a kasrah, including al-ridāʾ (cloak), al-kisāʾ (garment), al-nidāʾ (calling), and al-shifāʾ (healing), confirming at the end of the list that each of these nouns is prolonged and has an initial kasrah al-Maqsur wa al-Mamdud al….
• Prolonged nouns with an initial fatḥah (wa-min al-mamdūd al-maftūḥ al-awwal): Enlists prolonged words beginning with a fatḥah, such as al-ʿaṭāʾ (gift), al-fanāʾ (courtyard), al-samāʾ (sky), al-dawāʾ (remedy), and al-jazāʾ (recompense) al-Maqsur wa al-Mamdud al….
• Prolonged nouns with an initial ḍammah (al-mamdūd al-maḍmūm al-awwal): Catalogues nouns that begin with a ḍammah, such as al-duʿāʾ (supplication) and al-ḥudāʾ (camel-driver's chant) al-Maqsur wa al-Mamdud al…. The text notes a general phonetic rule that all names of vocal sounds are prolonged with an initial ḍammah, barring specific exceptions such as al-ghināʾ and al-nidāʾ al-Maqsur wa al-Mamdud al….
• Nouns admitting both prolongation and shortening (mā yumadd wa-yuqṣar): Treats words that can be pronounced as either shortened or prolonged, noting that when shortened, they are spelled with yāʾ (e.g., al-zinā, al-bukā, and faḥwā) al-Maqsur wa al-Mamdud al…. It also records that letters of the Arabic alphabet can be both prolonged and shortened; when shortened, they are written with an alif, except for the letter zāy, which is written with a yāʾ following an alif al-Maqsur wa al-Mamdud al….
• Nouns whose prolongation depends on vocalic variation (mā yuqṣar, fa-idhā ghuyyira baʿḍ ḥarakāt bināʾih mudd): Details nouns that are shortened under one vocalic scheme but become prolonged when the initial vowel changes (such as al-bilā, al-anā, al-liqāʾ, and al-bināʾ), as well as words that are prolonged when their medial consonant is ungeminated and shortened with a yāʾ when geminated, such as al-bāqillāʾ and al-bāqillā al-Maqsur wa al-Mamdud al….

Editions

The work was edited by Muhammad Jabbar al-Mu'aybid under the title al-Maqṣūr wa-l-Mamdūd and published with an attribution to Ghulam Thalab al-Maqsur wa al-Mamdud al….