n. (pl. binyanim (rarely also wazn) In Semitic languages, one of the systematic sets of derived forms of a verbal root typically expressing distinctions of grammatical categories such as voice. Examples from Arabic: katab ‘write’, kattab...

In the terminology used to discuss the grammar of the Semitic languages and some other Afro-Asiatic languages, a triliteral (Arabic: جذر ثلاثي, ǧaḏr ṯalāṯī) is a root containing a sequence of three consonants (so also known as a...