On the formulation morphological patterns of Arabic, ancient Arab scholars differed in determining what of the nouns and verbs are bare and what are affixed Basrees regarded that base noun roots may be of three, four, or five consonants; and base verb roots may be of three or four consonants.They pointed out that affixes are the following letters: (s,Ɂ, l, t, m, w, n , j, h, a).Kufees, on the othe...