Arabic Colours

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Colours are are of type أفعل ('af`alu) for masculine, فء (fa`lā'u) for feminine and فعل (fu`lun) for plural. In accusative AND genitive case the masculine and feminine forms take -a instead of -u, and in they never get nunation in whatever case! The plural form follows the normal pattern with nunation, but note that this form is used even for inanimate plural, unlike is usual in arabic.

Below we list the masculine forms only, the others can be derived using the information above.

Colour Arabic English
أسود 'aswadun black
أبيض 'abyaDun white
أحمر 'aHmarun red
أصفر 'aSfarun yellow
أخضر 'axDarun green
أزرق 'azraqun blue
أسمر 'asmarun brown
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