"sound plural" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sound plurals [plural]
Etymology: Calque of Arabic جَمْع سَالِم (jamʕ sālim). Etymology templates: {{calque|en|ar|جَمْع سَالِم}} Calque of Arabic جَمْع سَالِم (jamʕ sālim) Head templates: {{en-noun}} sound plural (plural sound plurals)
  1. In Semitic and other Afro-Asiatic languages, a regular plural formed by adding a suffix, without changes to the stem. An example in Arabic is مُسْلِمُونَ (muslimūna, “Muslims”), the plural form of مُسْلِم (muslim, “Muslim”), formed by adding the suffix ـُونَ (-ūna), and مُسْلِمَاتٌ (muslimātun, “Muslim women”), formed by adding the suffix ـَاتٌ (-ātun). Wikipedia link: sound plural Categories (topical): Semitic linguistics Translations (in Arabic and other languages, regular plural formed by adding a suffix): جَمْع سَالِم (jamʕ sālim) [masculine] (Arabic), pluriel externe [masculine] (French), gesunder Plural (German), plurale sano [masculine] (Italian)
    Sense id: en-sound_plural-en-noun-WTmBCXJL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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