On 04 May 2014, at 11:34, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
2014-05-04 6:24 GMT+02:00 LizR <[email protected]>:
On 4 May 2014 15:20, Samiya Illias <[email protected]> wrote:
I have forwarded your query to an expert in Arabic Grammar. Your
quote from Wikipedia is correct. What I can inform you, based on my
understanding, is that the pronoun 'ha' used in the verse is for
female singular with a plural masculine noun 'butuun' indicates that
it is specifically about a female bee.
OK. I hope you are prepared to accept that if Arabic gives genders
to everything, including things which are in fact genderless (like
tables), then that demolishes any claim that bees being described as
female in ancient texts has any particular significance.
I will look at the other claims once this one has been settled, if
you don't mind. I think one at a time is best if we are attempting
to establish the truth in each case.
Anyway, before that, he should also show why such knowledge would
have not been accessible to people of that era... because... that's
what he claims.
What *she* claims, I would say. "Samiya" seems to be a feminine name:
http://www.google.be/search?q=Samiya&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=TzhnU7qsFKSw0QXezYG4Aw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1457&bih=1102
Regards,
Quentin
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