words in Arabic


I'm still working on the Arabic children's story I mentioned in an
earlier posting. I've been pretty successful at looking up almost all
the words in the story in Wehr's Arabic-English dictionary, but I've had
a lot of trouble with some of them. Here are two in particular, in
case someone can help me with them. I'll present them as written,
using the names of the letters and vowels (as given in Thatcher's Arabic
Grammar, but without worrying about dots and lines in his transliteration
of the names, since it seems the names of the letters in these words are
still uniquely recognizable without them). Also I'll write them from right
to left.


tanwin fatha sukun damma
alif ba ra za dad mim
kasra

tashdid fatha sukun
alif waw fa za sad alif fa


Apart from wanting to know the roots and derivations of these words from
their roots, I'd also like to know whether these words really can be found
in Wehr and, if so, where, and if not, what other dictionary definitely
has them. Also, it may help to know that the book was published in
Lebanon, just in case these words represent some kind of Lebanese dialect.
--
Ignorantly,
Allan Adler <ara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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