Treasures of Arabic Language |
Nature and characteristic of letters - 4 |
Frequency of Letters in Words
Some letters are used more frequently than others in word construction.
More Frequent |
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���� ������ |
Less Frequent |
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��� ������ |
Rare |
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���� ������� |
Any Arabic word of three letters or more must contain at least one of these six letters:
, otherwise the word is not considered Arabic word.
No two letters of the following set can exist together in any Arabic word.
Some letters (like ) are not preceded by other letters (like
) in the word
Some letters (like ) are not followed by other letters (like
) in the word.
Source: Lesan Al-Arab (The Arab Tongue) by Ebn Manzour - Dar El-Maaref; Cairo |