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" The distinction between them is, that i indicates a temporary state or condition, or a merely accidental quality in persons or things ; whilst u indicates a permanent state or a naturally inherent quality  "
A Grammar of the Arabic Language - Page 28
by Carl Paul Caspari - 1859
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A Grammar of the Arabic Language

Carl Paul Caspari - Arabic language - 1862 - 610 pages
...kill, y^Jt: to give , iLo to be unlucky , JLir to go the right way , (jULa. to sit. 38. The vowel i in the same position has generally an intransitive...permanent state, or a naturally inherent quality. Eg ' to be glad, * to be sorry, to be blind, but ^la- to be beautiful; ^3 to be ugly, to be heavy....
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A grammar of the Arabic language, tr. and ed. by W. Wright, Volume 1

Carl Paul Caspari - 1874 - 376 pages
...(j^- to sit. 38. The vowel г in the same position has generally an intransitive signification, и invariably so. The distinction between them is, that...merely accidental quality in persons or things; whilst и indicates a permanent state, or a naturally inherent quality. E. g. ss ^^ x* ^ ^$x^ —f or Jjo-...
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General Principles of the Structure of Language, Volume 2

James Byrne - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1885 - 434 pages
...second radical is a in most of the transitive, and not a few of the intransitive verbs. The vowel i in the same position has generally an intransitive...a permanent state or a naturally inherent quality " i (see 79). (2.) Faggala; intensive, temporally extensive, numerically extensive, iterative, causative,...
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General Principles of the Structure of Language, Volume 2

James Byrne - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1885 - 424 pages
...second radical is a in most of the transitive, and not a few of the intransitive verbs. The vowel i in the same position has generally an intransitive...condition, or a merely accidental quality in persons 1 Wright, p. 216-218. 2 Ibid. p. 219-223. » Ibid. p. 28-43. or things ; whilst u indicates a permanent...
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Structures of Avarice: The Bukhalāʼ in Medieval Arabic Literature

Fadwá Mālṭī Dūǧlās - Social Science - 1985 - 200 pages
...perfect of the first form of the verb, we find bakhila* and la^uma. Wright notes that in this position, "i indicates a temporary state or condition, or a...indicates a permanent state, or a naturally inherent quality."9 On that principle, bukhl would refer to an accidental quality and lu^m to an inherent quality....
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