عرفهما أَو نكرن أَو عرفن

عرفهما أَو نكرن أَو عرفن

للوصف أَو معموله وَلتعرِبَن

للوصف أَو معموله وَلتعرِبَن

Make both definite, or indefinite, or make definite

Whether we know them or not, or recognize them

the adjective or its governed noun; and do inflect

For description or its object, let them be declined

معمولَه بضمة أَو كسره

معمولَه بضمة أَو كسره

فَتحة تَبلغ ثَماني عَشره

فَتحة تَبلغ ثَماني عَشره

its governed noun with a nominative or genitive ending,

Decline its object with dammah or kasrah

or an accusative ending: you reach eighteen forms.

Fat-hah reaches eighteen

يَقبح ما حذفت مِنهُ المضمرا

يَقبح ما حذفت مِنهُ المضمرا

أَو كانَ فيهِ مضمر تكررا

أَو كانَ فيهِ مضمر تكررا

Inelegant is a construction from which you omit the pronoun,

It is ugly what is omitted from it the hidden

or one in which a pronoun is repeated.

Or if it had a repeated hidden

وَنحوَ داجي شعره قَد وَردا

وَنحوَ داجي شعره قَد وَردا

نَثراً وَنَظماً فاترك المبردا

نَثراً وَنَظماً فاترك المبردا

And expressions like 'one whose hair is dark' are indeed attested,

And like Daji his hair has come

in prose and verse; so disregard al-Mubarrad.

In prose and verse, so leave al-Mubarrad

وَنصب شعره دليل الجر

وَنصب شعره دليل الجر

وَالنَصب في النَثر أَتى وَالشعر

وَالنَصب في النَثر أَتى وَالشعر

And the accusative of 'his hair' is evidence for the genitive;

And raise his hair as evidence for the genitive

and the accusative occurs in prose and verse.

And the raising in prose came and poetry

وَيمنع اِثنانِ كَهِم بِالحَسَنِ

وَيمنع اِثنانِ كَهِم بِالحَسَنِ

عَذارُه لا بِالقَبيح ذَقنِ

عَذارُه لا بِالقَبيح ذَقنِ

And two forms are forbidden, as in: 'Be enamored of the one fair

And two prevent it like their defiance with beauty

of cheek, not the one ugly of chin.'

Its excuse not with the ugly chin