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HINDUSTANI LANGUAGE.
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minine is generally formed by the addition of the above-
mentioned terminations, or of T (d) J> (ni) JT (ani) ^ (yan)
or ^T (cyan) ; so Sp a doe, from ci deer; KjU the female
of a il&li leader; Sjy< a peahen, from a peacock;
o ^ O C X f f,
from a sweeper; the wife of a Uj shopkeeper;
the wife of a religious preceptor. With Persian words,
however, p is generally used to distinguish the male, and
xdU the female ; as,y jJ* atiger, wl« /A a tigress; fj a bull,
idU a cow : and the feminines of Arabic nouns are some-
times had, according to the idiom of that language, by
subjoining »\ (a) to the masculines; so *£L a queen, from
5. In number, most nouns mav be either singular or
plural. The termination *\ [a) orT (c) of masculines in the
nominative singular becomes (e) in the same case of
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the plural; except the words tjo- God, \j*\ a nohle or nohles,
\cJ> a poet, lc a cloctor, Ud,* a prince, B master, bb fatlier,
\cj father, \j^ aprince, melancholy, « heggcir, \pgj a
~' p . r
leader, \L^pure, liheral, l3h wise, \juj produced, ^ suhlime,
c . o / - ^
^U&T evident, \^j disgraced, prepared, which, with a very
few more, chiefly proper names or adjectives, ending in T
(a), as well as masculine nouns of all other terminations, are
* This word is sometimes inflected j as, , or or •
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minine is generally formed by the addition of the above-
mentioned terminations, or of T (d) J> (ni) JT (ani) ^ (yan)
or ^T (cyan) ; so Sp a doe, from ci deer; KjU the female
of a il&li leader; Sjy< a peahen, from a peacock;
o ^ O C X f f,
from a sweeper; the wife of a Uj shopkeeper;
the wife of a religious preceptor. With Persian words,
however, p is generally used to distinguish the male, and
xdU the female ; as,y jJ* atiger, wl« /A a tigress; fj a bull,
idU a cow : and the feminines of Arabic nouns are some-
times had, according to the idiom of that language, by
subjoining »\ (a) to the masculines; so *£L a queen, from
5. In number, most nouns mav be either singular or
plural. The termination *\ [a) orT (c) of masculines in the
nominative singular becomes (e) in the same case of
9 s 9
the plural; except the words tjo- God, \j*\ a nohle or nohles,
\cJ> a poet, lc a cloctor, Ud,* a prince, B master, bb fatlier,
\cj father, \j^ aprince, melancholy, « heggcir, \pgj a
~' p . r
leader, \L^pure, liheral, l3h wise, \juj produced, ^ suhlime,
c . o / - ^
^U&T evident, \^j disgraced, prepared, which, with a very
few more, chiefly proper names or adjectives, ending in T
(a), as well as masculine nouns of all other terminations, are
* This word is sometimes inflected j as, , or or •