عرفهما أَو نكرن أَو عرفن
للوصف أَو معموله وَلتعرِبَن
Make both definite, or indefinite, or make definite
the adjective or its dependent; and give case endings
معمولَه بضمة أَو كسره
فَتحة تَبلغ ثَماني عَشره
to its dependent with a ḍamma, a kasra, or
a fatḥa: you reach eighteen.
يَقبح ما حذفت مِنهُ المضمرا
أَو كانَ فيهِ مضمر تكررا
It is awkward when you remove the implicit pronoun from a form,
or when a pronoun within it is repeated.
وَنحوَ داجي شعره قَد وَردا
نَثراً وَنَظماً فاترك المبردا
A form like “dark is his hair” has occurred
in prose and verse, so set aside al-Mubarrad.
وَنصب شعره دليل الجر
وَالنَصب في النَثر أَتى وَالشعر
The accusative of “his hair” is evidence for the genitive;
the accusative also occurs in prose and verse.
وَيمنع اِثنانِ كَهِم بِالحَسَنِ
عَذارُه لا بِالقَبيح ذَقنِ
Two forms are disallowed, as in “like them, with handsome
cheek hair,” not “with an ugly chin.”
Sol 6