Abd al-Rahman al-Muallimi al-Yamani
Anizam Lughawiya - ضمن "Athar al-Muallimi
- Author died
- 1386 AH
- Editions
- Dar Alam al-Fawa'id lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzi'
Anzam Lughawiyya (Arabic: أنظام لغوية, lit. 'Linguistic Versifications') is a collection of three didactic grammatical and lexical poems composed by the Yemeni scholar Abd al-Rahman al-Muallimi al-Yamani (d. 1386 AH / 1966 CE), published within his collected works (Athar al-Muallimi) in the volume gathering his treatises on Arabic grammar and linguistics.
Content and Structure
The collection consists of three distinct versifications in the rajaz meter covering specific morphological and lexical issues in Arabic:
- Non-marked feminine nouns (al-asma al-mu'annatha al-sama'iyya): A 14-verse poem enumerating Arabic nouns that lack standard feminine markers. It divides them into two categories: nouns that strictly require feminine treatment, totaling sixty words, and nouns where both masculine and feminine treatment are permissible, totaling sixteen words. Al-Muallimi numbered each word in his manuscript, and appended the word al-dabu' (hyena) as word number sixty-one in writing after the first section without versifying it.
- Plural forms of 'abd: Two alternative versifications by al-Muallimi compiling the broken and sound plurals of the word 'abd (servant/slave). While al-Fayruzabadi listed fifteen plurals in al-Qamus al-muhit, al-Muallimi brought the count to twenty forms in each of his two versifications.
- Plural forms of shaykh: A four-verse poem compiling the eleven plurals of the word shaykh recorded by al-Fayruzabadi in al-Qamus al-muhit.
Manuscript and Publication
The verses were preserved in the author's handwriting within his personal miscellaneous notebook (kashkul), cataloged under collection number 4104 at the Library of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca. The collection appears in the twentieth volume (Majmu' rasa'il al-nahw wa-l-lughah) of the comprehensive edition of his scholarly legacy, Athar Abd al-Rahman bin Yahya al-Muallimi al-Yamani.
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