Adjectival noun (noun)
Encyclopedia
An adjectival noun refers to an adjective
that functions as a noun
. English
examples include "the other", "the True", "the Irish", and "the rich and the poor".
or attributive noun.
Adjectival noun may also refer to a noun that functions as an adjective, especially Japanese adjectival nouns.
, adjectival nouns are much more common however. German examples include "Bekannte(r)", "Angestellte(r)", and "Deutsche(r)".
. Examples include , where "‘islamiyyah" is the adjective "Islamic", and "al-‘Islamiyyah" can be translated as "things Islamic."
Adjective
In grammar, an adjective is a 'describing' word; the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified....
that functions as a noun
Noun
In linguistics, a noun is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition .Lexical categories are defined in terms of how their members combine with other kinds of...
. English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
examples include "the other", "the True", "the Irish", and "the rich and the poor".
Related concepts
A noun that functions as an adjective can be called an adjectival noun in English (e.g. Fowler http://www.b17mb.com/mb/viewtopic.php?p=93666&sid=58186b5b4aaf47341e7f0e67c411437e), but it is nowadays more often called a noun adjunctNoun adjunct
In grammar, a noun adjunct or attributive noun or noun premodifier is a noun that modifies another noun and is optional — meaning that it can be removed without changing the grammar of the sentence; it is a noun functioning as an adjective. For example, in the phrase "chicken soup" the noun adjunct...
or attributive noun.
Adjectival noun may also refer to a noun that functions as an adjective, especially Japanese adjectival nouns.
German
In inflected languages like GermanGerman language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, adjectival nouns are much more common however. German examples include "Bekannte(r)", "Angestellte(r)", and "Deutsche(r)".
Arabic
Adjectival nouns occur frequently in the Classical and Modern Standard ArabicLiterary Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic , Standard Arabic, or Literary Arabic is the standard and literary variety of Arabic used in writing and in most formal speech....
. Examples include , where "‘islamiyyah" is the adjective "Islamic", and "al-‘Islamiyyah" can be translated as "things Islamic."