An irregular plural formed by changing the pattern of consonants and vowels inside the singular form, found in the Semitic languages and other Afroasiatic languages such as Berber. An example in Arabic is مَكَاتِب (makātib, “desks”), the plural form of مَكْتَب (maktab, “desk”).

The first-person plural pronoun as traditionally used by a sovereign in formal speech to refer to themself in their role as the monarch.

(grammar) A word doubly inflected for the plural grammatical number in relation to its singular form; e.g., medium → media → medias.

plural of plural wife

A co-wife in a polygamous marriage.

(grammar) A form of plural — typically used with a name, title or kinship term — which collectively refers to all those people associated with the referent (within the given frame of reference).

(grammar) A form of plural in which the referent is a collection of those items to which the stem itself refers (within a given frame of reference).

(grammar) Synonym of associative plural.

(South Africa, historical) apartheid

In Semitic and other Afro-Asiatic languages, a regular plural formed by adding a suffix, without changes to the stem. An example in Arabic is مُسْلِمُونَ (muslimūna, “Muslims”), the plural form of مُسْلِم (muslim, “Muslim”), formed by adding the suffix ـُونَ (-ūna), and مُسْلِمَاتٌ (muslimātun, “Muslim women”), formed by adding the suffix ـَاتٌ (-ātun).