Al-Hamadhānī is credited with the composition of 400 maqāmahs (Arabic plural maqāmāt), of which some 52 are extant (Eng. trans. by W.J. Prendergast, The Maqámát of Badíʿ al-Zamán al-Hamadhānī, 1915).
The term status (the plural form of which is also status, pronounced with a long u) designates just a state of a thing, the way the thing is.
Enough of the Thuluth script remains to identify the word salatin, the Arabic plural of "sultan," which originally formed part of the title "Sultan al-Salatin" (Sultan of Sultans), acknowledging the universal kingship of a ruler.
IN JUNE Britain became the first non-Muslim country to issue sukuk, the Islamic equivalent of a bond (the word itself is the plural of sakk, which means contract or deed).
Jewish theological and cosmological speculations occur in the Midrashim (plural of Midrash), which propound allegories, legends, and myths under the guise of interpreting biblical verses, and in the Sefer yetzira ("Book of Creation"), a combination of cosmogony and grammar that was once attributed to Abraham.
While it seems plausible that met coluen (which is the dative plural of colve, of which kolf, meaning "with clubs," is a variant) yielded the Scots loanword golf, it is clear from the verb tsollen (from the French souler, "to play football") that the text envisaged the rough competitive team game of soule played with a curved stick.
Henry Laycock and Michael Burke, at times, have tentatively favored the notion that there is a novel ontic category of plural entities which are not individual items of quantification.
First, there are large time differences between the waves of migration and the eventual acceptance of plural citizenship, which means relatively lengthy transition periods.
Nevertheless, "revised" Passover Haggadot (plural of Haggada), in which contemporary issues are accorded a central position, appear regularly.
And we are also a party of plural politics, which means coalition and compromise, and that means we can't keep every promise we have made.
