83. There are, however, a few exceptions to these rules: the names of animals sometimes make their plurals in ها, as well as in ان, as, شتر shuṭur, a camel; شترها shuṭurha, and شتران shuṭurāṅ, camels; and, on the other hand, the names of things sometimes have plurals in ان, as لب lab, a lip, لبان labāṅ, lips.
84. Substantive nouns, or attributives used as such, ending in (
Arabic characters) or (Arabic characters),
form their plurals in (Arabic characters); as, (Arabic characters), dānā, a learned man; (Arabic characters) dānāyāṅ,
learned men; (Arabic characters), fairy-faced, pl. (Arabic characters). Those which end in
silent (Arabic characters), signifying rational beings, are made plural by changing that
letter into (Arabic characters), as (Arabic characters) bachah, an infant; (Arabic characters) bachagāṅ, infants; sometimes written separately; as, (Arabic characters) farishṭah, an angel; (Arabic characters) farishṭah gāṅ, angels.
But if such word end in the aspirated (Arabic characters), (Art. 29), the termination (Arabic characters)
or (Arabic characters), will be regularly added; as, (Arabic characters), the king; (Arabic characters), kings;
(Arabic characters), way; (Arabic characters), ways.
If, however, a noun signifying any thing irrational end in silent (Arabic characters),
this letter will be rejected in forming the plural; as, (Arabic characters), the house;
(Arabic characters), houses.
85. In some modern Persian books, as the life of Nādir Shāh, and others, the plural often ends in (Arabic characters); or, in (Arabic characters), if the singular has a silent final (Arabic characters).
