Process vs. Product

An #EveryDayArabic Post

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In November I started teaching a new Arabic class, "The Arabic Reader" and there have been many great questions from the students thus far. One such question was about the field of grammar known as Ṣarf (morphology) specifically relating to the patters nouns are constructed on, known as a wazn (وزن) or a ṣīghah (صيغة). And while it can seem overwhelmi…