Indication of lrregular plural forms in Al-Khurami,s poem (Sedition of Baghdad)

Abstract

            Morphological significance has an important impact in enriching the lexical balance by transforming the used word and giving it a new meaning other than its original meaning without affecting its morphological structure. This feature distinguishes Arabic language through the relationship of linguistic exchange, and the irregular plural causes a change in the structure of the word when it moves from the singular to the plural. So this change occurs in the letters and vowels. Its rhythms were many and divided to the two parts auditory and regular.

          This study addressed a poem by the poet “Abu Ya’qub Ishaq Hassan Qawhi Al-Khuraimi” ( 214AH), in which he describes the fire of Baghdad, during the strife between Al-Amin and Al-Ma’mun in the year (197 AH). It is a long poem with more than 130 poetic verses. Its idea was based on describing the situation in Baghdad. In which, he poet resorted to linguistic, grammatical, rhetorical, and morphological methods. All of which he employed to draw connotations that he excelled in conveying, as we see in them the use of plural forms expressing certain connotations that the poet wanted in the compositions of his poem. This difference in structure from the singular to the plural must entail a change in meaning, which the predecessors did not neglect to point out, as the significance of the plural forms is the basic criterion for its classification.

             The approach I followed it was descriptive-analytical to collects the morphological forms and analyzing them morphologically and semantically, by relying on books of morphology, dictionaries, and semantics. For this reason, the research was built on three points, and introduction that revealed the morphological significance and the irregular plural in the theoretical framework.

            The first framework examined the significance of the forms of the plural of the few, and this plural has four special forms whose nouns range from the number three to ten. The second request was concerned with the title of the significance of the multiplicity plural forms, which applies to the number ten to infinity, and it has many rhythms. The research was limited to the examples mentioned in the poem. The third requirement is concerned with the significance of the formulas of the finite plurals, and its formulas are specific to the plural that is not followed by a plural if it reaches one of these rhythms. The conclusion was the most important results of the research and a list of research sources and references.