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body, in order that difficulties may not arise. But you committed yourseif in this
matter without consultation. Therefore my son Isa does not agree to this contract
which has been concluded between you and the German, for he apprehends difficulties
from the participation of foreigners in this business. It to
agreement than to do as he (the German) wish And you have been informed before
this that an association with the German in the red oxide matter should not take place,
because it was to be feared that it would lead to unpleasant consequences. That is
what my son Isa says. I have communicated it to you for your information, and
greeting.
ABDALLATIF.
8 Dulhidje, 1324 (January 23, 1907).
Annex 37.
The Arabian MissR
Mr. G. Eisenhut, Robert Wonckhaus and Co., Bussorah:
My dear Mr. Eisenhut, 1909.
REPLYING to your communication of a few days since, in which you ask me to
define an Arabic sentence, I wish to report as follows:—
I.™JlkxJLl is the Masdar of the Xth conjugation of the root JL j - The verb
Jk> is an intransitive verb signifying to be r The second conju
gation jL on the measure makes the verb transitive, and the Masdar (German
infinitivus) indicates nullification, abolition, The fourth measure Jki! (Jjut)
likewise makes the intransitive verb transitive.
It is the function of the Xth conjugation to impart to the ITnd and IVth measures the
significance of a desire to, an asking to, a and occasionally
imparts reflexive meaning.
Vide Palmer's Arabic Grammar, p. 31.
Vide Socin's Arabic Grammar (Berlin, 1895), p, 29, § 26.
Cf. also dill jkxLAj^iLb,&c.
Cf. also the standard Arabic dictionary " Qatr-el-Muhit," m
JlkxJLil signifies " a desire or request to
II.—IhliuM <LLUu, root Jli, to say, speak. The form means a conference,
a conversation, dispute, &c. Then by derivation but usually
agreement. For " a written agreement" ^ would be properly used, though there is
locally in Bussorah some looseness in the use of this word.
III.—from the root^U-, meaning to signifies
preferable, with no implication of compulsion except that of a
E .g., in the Moslem call to prayer at dawn : ( !< prayer is better
than sleep ").
E.g., <o (charity).
E.g., ij ^ (a charitable society).
Cf. Matthew xviii : 8 Van Dyck's version.
Cf. Matthew xviii: 8 Jesuit version.
1 v',—root
The IVth measure signifies to respond, reply, implying no compulsion.
LU-j signifies a favourable answer or reply, Wortabet
Dictionary, in loco. is wider than (acceptance), inasmuch as may