The Addition of the Letter Cayn at the Beginning of the Four Radical forms: Authentic Study Through Descriptive, and Comparative Philology

Abstract

Arabic traditional dictionaries such as as-sihāh, al qāmūs al-Muhīt and lisān al-cArab consider four–letter words beninning with cayn as cibīd and cusfūr as originally four–letter words. Therefore, in these cases the initial cayn is seen? original?. Similarly cartam and cibīd measure as faclal and ficlīl respectively. This study aims at proving that cayn is? assitional? and thus cartam is derived as ratama and cibīd as rabada.