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    Salam,

    This has been troubling me a lot lately.

    Can someone please explain to me that on verse 16:68,69. The worker bee is refered to a female bee, can someone please explain to me how? someone has told me that kulli and fasluki is a femanine gender, can someone please explain to me how? is there any book on this type of grammer.

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    format_quote Originally Posted by kay106 View Post
    what about it?
    No one has really systematically refuted her claims, have they?
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    Re: Female honey bee? Arabic word?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Whatsthepoint View Post
    No one has really systematically refuted her claims, have they?
    Yes:-) this persons (dont really know if its a male, female, ...) claims does not make any sense, you can look at many contexes in the Quran, that when God commands a female to eat, it is kulee, when its a male it is Kul, when God commands a male to follow it is asluk, when it is female it is faslukee, as far as i have concluded, a command with a yaa at the end makes it femanine. this is very very clear, as in the case of Female honey bee.

    this persons claims is that when it is a yaa for a non intelligent specie it makes it plural, doesn't mean it is male or female. this is nonsense. I have asked her to proove it, she gave some text without even translating it, people are mocking at the thing she posted. see the posts. either she is talking without any knowledge, or she is trying to confuse me. also this point about female bee has been verified by schollars, such as Gary Miller, who is a revert from Christianity, Zakir Naik, ...... people who speak arabic, ......


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    format_quote Originally Posted by kay106 View Post
    Yes:-) Her claims does not make any sense, you can look at many contexes in the Quran, that when God commands a female to eat, it is kulee, when its a male it is Kul, when God commands a male to follow it is asluk, when it is female it is faslukee, as far as i have concluded, a command with a yaa at the end makes it femanine. this is very very clear, as in the case of Female honey bee.

    Peace,
    She did mention something about intelligent and non-intelligent nouns, so her arguments do make sense
    No one has argued or refuted her claims about grammar being different for intelligent and non-intelligent nouns like in this case.
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    Re: Female honey bee? Arabic word?

    I have already provided an explanation on the previous page, Arabic isn't her first language and she hasn't come back to refute me!

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    Re: Female honey bee? Arabic word?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Skye Ephémérine View Post
    I have already provided an explanation on the previous page, Arabic isn't her first language and she hasn't come back to refute me!

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    You said the verbs are feminine which doesn't refute her grammar claims and you haven't touched the multiple bellies issue.
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    format_quote Originally Posted by whatsthepoint View Post
    she did mention something about intelligent and non-intelligent nouns, so her arguments do make sense
    no one has argued or refuted her claims about grammar being different for intelligent and non-intelligent nouns like in this case.
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    Re: Female honey bee? Arabic word?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Whatsthepoint View Post
    You said the verbs are feminine which doesn't refute her grammar claims and you haven't touched the multiple bellies issue.


    the issues about the multiple bellies, AllahHuAlim, Allah knows best. i will leave this to the experts, i have found out what i needed to know.
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    Re: Female honey bee? Arabic word?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Whatsthepoint View Post
    You said the verbs are feminine which doesn't refute her grammar claims and you haven't touched the multiple bellies issue.
    "this persons (dont really know if its a male, female, ...) claims does not make any sense, you can look at many contexes in the Quran, that when God commands a female to eat, it is kulee, when its a male it is Kul, when God commands a male to follow it is asluk. this is very very clear, as in the case of Female honey bee. "

    Therefore if the verb is femanine, this means the subject is femanine too. whether people likes it or not. But this is the truth. LA ILAHA ILLAL ALLAH MUHAMMED RASUL ALLAH. 7 words changed the world for good. will change it more for the better, whether people likes it or not. ALAHAMDULLILAH HI RABBIL ALAMIN. All praises and thanks to the cherisher and sustainer of the worlds. I prostrate my 7 limbs (face, hands, knees, feets,) to Allah, lord of the 7 heavens and the glorious throne, whether people likes it or not!
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    Re: Female honey bee? Arabic word?

    format_quote Originally Posted by kay106 View Post
    "it doesn't make sense that if it is a singluar femanine form it becomes plural because otherwise how do we refer to a singluar femanine bee then? that means we never can. this claim is baseless. "
    I don't know, perhaps you can't.
    That's one explanation Faye provided:
    An-Nahl is 'Ism ul-Jins' or 'species name'. It can be used to give both singular and plural meaning. (Sort of like 'sheep' in English being used both for plural and singular) The use of kulli, fasluki and other singular feminine forms shows that it is being used in the plural meaning, as singular feminine form is used for plurals of non-intelligent nouns.
    She may be wrong, but so far no arabic speaker has refuted her claims. Perhaps Purest Skye will in short notice.

    the issues about the multiple bellies, AllahHuAlim, Allah knows best. It could easily refer to the segments. But i will leave this to the experts, i have found out what i needed to know.
    Not that easily, but it's possible...
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    Re: Female honey bee? Arabic word?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Whatsthepoint View Post
    I don't know, perhaps you can't.
    That's one explanation Faye provided:

    She may be wrong, but so far no arabic speaker has refuted her claims. Perhaps Purest Skye will in short notice.


    Not that easily, but it's possible...
    How do you refute something which is not true, which is baseless. You ask them for proof, if they cant give it, means it is not true. Simple.
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    Re: Female honey bee? Arabic word?

    format_quote Originally Posted by kay106 View Post
    How do you refute something which is not true, which is baseless. You ask them for proof, if they cant give it, means it is not true. Simple.
    How do you know it's not true? Why do you think its baseless?
    What proof do you want of her? She explained the grammar, she even told you which books she was using. What further evidence do you think she can come up with? If you disagree with the presented evidence, it's up to you and Arabic speakers to try to refute it, again using grammatical rules, examples etc. This is how grammatical debates work.
    I'm neutral here, I have no idea who's right and who's wrong, but so far Faye is the only one to have presented evidence.
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    Re: Female honey bee? Arabic word?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Whatsthepoint View Post
    You said the verbs are feminine which doesn't refute her grammar claims and you haven't touched the multiple bellies issue.
    Her claims are baseless, given that she doesn't speak Arabic, I can understand her difficulties in understanding basic grammar.. given your protracted caprices at utter nonesense I am not surprised either ( forgive me for pointing out the obvious)..

    It is like you saying I have fused fingers because syndactyly exists and the burden of proof is upon me to prove otherwise.

    Is this something I even wish to entertain? It is asinine on all grounds!
    The verbs are feminine because the subject is feminine end of story!

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    Re: Female honey bee? Arabic word?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Skye Ephémérine View Post
    I have already provided an explanation on the previous page, Arabic isn't her first language and she hasn't come back to refute me!

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    It's true, Arabic is not my first language, but we are studying Classical Arabic Grammer, with the focus being on Quranic Grammar.

    A person with Arabic as their first language probably speaks 3ammiyah. And 3ammiyah is quite different from the language used in the Quran, particularly when it comes to vocabulary and grammar. Minute grammatical points used in the Quran may not be present or used in the everyday language. So, without making a study of Quranic Grammar, it is quite possible that a native speaker be mistaken.

    Not that I am saying that my own grammar is anywhere close to perfect, as I am still a student, but the rule of feminine form being used for plurals of non-humans is very basic. We studied it in our first week at Madrassa.

    The Ism-ul-Jins rule is more complex. We haven't officially studied it yet, but I knew it was there and looked it up in my books. I may be wrong about it, but I think I am correct.

    The reason I don't agree with the feminine bee concept is not because it would be grammatically incorrect, but because the meaning would be off in that translation as it would say: "her bellies" (though I agree that if a bee has more than two abdomens, the concept of the feminine bee is not wrong). An alternate, also grammatically correct translation would use the grammatical rule of the feminine form being used for non-human groups, and translate it as "their bellies". All the translations I looked at translate it that way (one of my reasons for preferring my explanation), indicating that they have used that grammatical rule.

    I suggest that in order to refute me, you give an alternate explanation for why so many translations translate "butooni-ha" as "their bellies".
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    Re: Female honey bee? Arabic word?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Skye Ephémérine View Post
    P.S your example, is speaking of a pronoun and in the Quranic example is speaking of a verb..
    I provided a verb as well (SaqaTat).

    format_quote Originally Posted by Skye Ephémérine View Post
    I think you can agree with a language as complex as Arabic, the complete set of inflected forms of a verb have to agree with the gender of the adjective!
    Will you clarify this statement? The gender of the adjective is also feminine. (Hazihee) I don't understand what you intend to say here.

    format_quote Originally Posted by Skye Ephémérine View Post
    on a last note.. your above Arabic statement is wrought with grammatical errors.
    What are the grammatical errors? What would be the correct form?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Skye Ephémérine View Post
    No one actually speaks or writes likes that!


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    Re: Female honey bee? Arabic word?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Skye Ephémérine View Post
    itakhizhi is a verb, bee a pronoun!
    the example is already given you in the Quran
    Actually, bee is not a pronoun, it is noun.

    The ha at the end of butooni-ha is a pronoun. It means hers (as in belonging to her).

    And don't jump on me here claiming that I contradicted myself. It also means theirs (as in belonging to them, or of them) when referring to non-humans.
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    format_quote Originally Posted by kay106 View Post
    when God commands a male to follow it is asluk, when it is female it is faslukee.
    Correction: when God commands a male to follow it is osluk, when it is female it is oslukee. The fa behind it means 'so'
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    Re: Female honey bee? Arabic word?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Faye View Post
    Correction: when God commands a male to follow it is osluk, when it is female it is oslukee. The fa behind it means 'so'
    the point was that the EE means that God is talking to a femanine. Get the point? seems to me your admitting it, EE makes it femanine.
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    Re: Female honey bee? Arabic word?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Faye View Post
    It's true, Arabic is not my first language, but we are studying Classical Arabic Grammer, with the focus being on Quranic Grammar.

    A person with Arabic as their first language probably speaks 3ammiyah. And 3ammiyah is quite different from the language used in the Quran, particularly when it comes to vocabulary and grammar. Minute grammatical points used in the Quran may not be present or used in the everyday language. So, without making a study of Quranic Grammar, it is quite possible that a native speaker be mistaken.

    Not that I am saying that my own grammar is anywhere close to perfect, as I am still a student, but the rule of feminine form being used for plurals of non-humans is very basic. We studied it in our first week at Madrassa.

    The Ism-ul-Jins rule is more complex. We haven't officially studied it yet, but I knew it was there and looked it up in my books. I may be wrong about it, but I think I am correct.

    The reason I don't agree with the feminine bee concept is not because it would be grammatically incorrect, but because the meaning would be off in that translation as it would say: "her bellies" (though I agree that if a bee has more than two abdomens, the concept of the feminine bee is not wrong). An alternate, also grammatically correct translation would use the grammatical rule of the feminine form being used for non-human groups, and translate it as "their bellies". All the translations I looked at translate it that way (one of my reasons for preferring my explanation), indicating that they have used that grammatical rule.

    I suggest that in order to refute me, you give an alternate explanation for why so many translations translate "butooni-ha" as "their bellies".
    we are talking about aslukee, faslukee, attakhizee. not Butunha, Like i have mentioned earlier, a command word with a Yaa at the end means the subject is femanine.

    Now you claims that that because Butunha could mean "their" thats why the bee is not femanine? thats why the yaa at the end makes it plural? dont make any sense.

    The Arabic grammer is derived from the Quran.
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    Re: Female honey bee? Arabic word?

    format_quote Originally Posted by Whatsthepoint View Post
    How do you know it's not true? Why do you think its baseless?
    What proof do you want of her? She explained the grammar, she even told you which books she was using. What further evidence do you think she can come up with? If you disagree with the presented evidence, it's up to you and Arabic speakers to try to refute it, again using grammatical rules, examples etc. This is how grammatical debates work.
    I'm neutral here, I have no idea who's right and who's wrong, but so far Faye is the only one to have presented evidence.

    according to you the presented evidence is "yaa makes it plural" doesn't mean God is commanding a female bee. Dont make any sense, where is the evidence for that? that non-intelligent noun becomes plural by verbs.
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    Re: Female honey bee? Arabic word?

    how do you say her book in arabic, it is kitabuha, the book is non intelligent, so does that become plural?
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