In the page of my assigned article "Compound (linguistics)" I have noticed in the "Examples from different languages" section that there were examples of special types of compounds that are used in other languages. The examples under that section were from languages like Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, German, Ancient Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. However, I couldn't find an example for the Arabic language so I decided to introduce a special form of Arabic words, which are adjectives that could be translated into two-word and three-word English compound. I've found these examples from a study conducted by Dr. Walid Amir, an associate professor of linguistics in the Islamic University of Gaza.
Arabic
The Arabic language contains one-word adjectives that can be translated into two-word and three-word English compounds. [1]
Examples:
(1) trustworthy موثوق /maʊθuk/
(2) up to date حديث /hadiθ/
- ^ Amir, Walid. "Compounding in English and Arabic: A contrastive study" (PDF). http://site.iugaza.edu.ps/wamer/files/2010/02/Compounding-in-English-and-Arabic.pdf. Retrieved 12/8/2016.
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