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In Semitic linguistics, the elative (Arabic: اِسْمُ تَفْضِيل ismu tafḍīl, literally meaning "noun of preference") is a stage of gradation that can be used to express comparatives or superlatives. The Arabic elative has a special inflection similar to that of colour and defect adjectives but differs in the
For the comparative superlative they use the words "mais" and "più" between the article and the adjective, like "most" in English. For the absolute superlative they either use "muito"/"molto" and the adjective or modify the adjective by taking away the final vowel and adding issimo (singular masculine), issima (singular feminine), íssimos ...
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A list of superlatives is a list consisting of items regarded as superlative. [1] Both items and their qualities can be arrived at objectively and subjectively . An example of an objective list is Tallest buildings by height .
The only real concatenative derivational process is the nisba adjective -iyy-, which can be added to any noun (or even other adjective) to form an adjective meaning "related to X", and nominalized with the meaning "person related to X" (the same ending occurs in Arabic nationality adjectives borrowed into English such as "Iraqi", "Kuwaiti").
The word entered astrology in the West with this meaning in the early 17th century, beginning in French. Early users in French said the word came from Arabic. [5] Definition of talisman | Dictionary.com tamarind تمر هندي tamr hindī (literally: "Indian date") [tamr hndj] (listen ⓘ), tamarind. Tamarinds were in use in ancient India.
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