Template:ar-sing-noun/documentation

This template is for Arabic singulative nouns (nouns which have a feminine form and singular meaning, and where the equivalent masculine form is a collective noun that is grammatically singular but has a plural meaning). The equivalent masculine noun should use. See شجرة for an example of a singulative noun that uses many of the parameters below.

To generate a declension table, use.

Parameters

 * 1 and head2, head3 ...
 * Overrides the displayed headword. This should be used to provide the vocalized equivalent of page name (i.e. with vowel diacritics). Should always be included.
 * Additional parameters are available if there are multiple possible vocalized equivalents of page name.


 * tr and tr2, tr3 ...
 * Transliteration. Normally unnecessary if the vocalized form was already provided, as it will be automatically derived. But see comments in about irregular spellings of borrowed nouns and consequent need to specify transliterations (see also About Arabic).
 * If multiple vocalised variants of the page name were provided, then each one has a corresponding numbered tr N parameter.


 * g
 * Gender: m or f or mf (rare).


 * coll
 * Collective form, with vowel diacritics if known.


 * colltr
 * Transliteration of collective. Generally unnecessary if vowels were provided.


 * collg
 * Gender of the collective.


 * d and d2, d3 ...
 * Dual form, with vowel diacritics if known.
 * Additional parameters are available if there are multiple possible dual forms.


 * dtr and d2tr, d3tr ...
 * Transliteration of dual. Generally unnecessary if vowels were provided.
 * If multiple dual forms were provided, then each one has a corresponding numbered d N tr parameter.


 * pauc and pauc2, pauc3 ...
 * Paucal form, with vowel diacritics if known.
 * Additional parameters are available if there are multiple possible paucal forms.


 * pauctr and pauc2tr, pauc3tr ...
 * Transliteration of paucal. Generally unnecessary if vowels were provided.
 * If multiple paucal forms were provided, then each one has a corresponding numbered pauc N tr parameter.


 * pl and pl2, pl3 ...
 * Plural form, with vowel diacritics if known. If the noun has no plural, use -.
 * Additional parameters are available if there are multiple possible plural forms.


 * pltr and pl2tr, pl3tr ...
 * Transliteration of plural. Generally unnecessary if vowels were provided.
 * If multiple plural forms were provided, then each one has a corresponding numbered pl N tr parameter.