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The Mudood (Lengthenings) Part 1

The document discusses the concept of "mudood" or lengthenings in Arabic phonology. It defines mudood as the lengthening of sounds with letters called "medd letters". Medd letters are divided into original and secondary categories. The document provides examples of words containing original medd letters like alif, waw, and ya. It defines the "natural lengthening" as a medd that is intrinsic to the letter and is not affected by preceding or following hamza or sukoon. A natural lengthening is lengthened by two vowel counts. Examples of words with natural lengthenings include those starting with alif, waw, and ya.

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The Mudood (Lengthenings) Part 1

The document discusses the concept of "mudood" or lengthenings in Arabic phonology. It defines mudood as the lengthening of sounds with letters called "medd letters". Medd letters are divided into original and secondary categories. The document provides examples of words containing original medd letters like alif, waw, and ya. It defines the "natural lengthening" as a medd that is intrinsic to the letter and is not affected by preceding or following hamza or sukoon. A natural lengthening is lengthened by two vowel counts. Examples of words with natural lengthenings include those starting with alif, waw, and ya.

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  • Introduction to Lengthenings
  • Medd Letters Explanation
  • Leen Letters Explanation
  • Natural Lengthening Explanation

The Mudood (Lengthenings) Part 1

The Lengthening
Its linguistic definition: Extra
Its applied definition: Lengthening of the sound with a letter of
the medd letters.
The medd is divided into two groups:
1. (The Original Medd)
2. (The Secondary Medd)
The medd letters are in the following
three cases:
• 1. The alif is always in this state, which is an alif
saakinah, preceded by a fathah:
• 2. The saakinah preceded by a kasrah
• 3. The saakinah preceded by a dhammah:

• All three of these medd letters appear in one word in


the following examples:
The leen letters

• 1- The saakinah preceded by a fat-hah, such


as: (( ‫موت‬
ْ َ ‫ال‬
• 2. The sakinah preceded by a fat-hah),
such as: .
•
The Natural Lengthening
• Its definition: It is the medd (lengthening) that without
which the letter cannot exist (the timing), and it does not
stop due to a hamzah or a sukoon.
• Its indications: There should not be a hamzah before it,
and there should not be a hamzah or sukoon after it.
• It is named original because it is the origin of all mudood
(lengthenings). It is called natural because the person
with a natural measure will not increase its measure nor
decrease it.
• Its timing: It is lengthened two vowel counts.
• The timing of each count depends on the speed of the
reciter. Each vowel should be equal in count to the other,
and the mudood of two, four, five, and six counts should
be equal to that many vowels.
The
• In Natural
all these Lengthening
three words, have a natural medd with different
medd letters and will have the timing of two vowel counts.
A note, the word has a natural medd as long as we do not
stop on the word. As stated before in the indications of the
natural medd there cannot be a sukoon after the medd
letter . If we were to stop on this word, the letter
would acquire a presented sukoon, and the medd would no
longer be considered a natural medd, but would be a
different kind of medd, to be discussed in future tidbit
lessons.
• Included in is the group of letters " ", which are letters that
start some surahs of the Qur’an. If any one of these letters
is at the beginning of a surah, the letter is read with two
vowel counts. An example of this would be: . Another
example is in the letters and pronounced as in the opening
verse of surah Maryam:

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