The second word of verse (21:79) is a proper noun in the genitive case (مجرور). The case marker is a fatḥah instead of a kasrah because the proper noun is a diptote (ممنوع من الصرف).

Chapter (21) sūrat l-anbiyāa (The Prophets) (21:79:2) sulaymāna (to) Sulaiman,
PN – genitive proper noun → Solomon	اسم علم مجرور بالفتحة بدلاً من الكسرة لأنه ممنوع من الصرف

Verse (21:79)

The analysis above refers to the 79th verse of chapter 21 (sūrat l-anbiyāa):

Sahih International: And We gave understanding of the case to Solomon, and to each [of them] We gave judgement and knowledge. And We subjected the mountains to exalt [Us], along with David and [also] the birds. And We were doing [that].

See Also

• English Translations
• Part-of-speech Tags
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Solomon - referred to by the proper noun

2 messages

	Maqbool Ahmad 29th July, 2016 (21:79:2) Should سُلَيْمَانَ not be اسم علم منصوب?
	Abdul Rahman 4th August, 2016 PN – accusative proper noun → Solomon

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