Arabic to Sindhi: familiar-looking writing still has different grammatical boundaries
A relation before the Arabic noun can follow the Sindhi noun
Arabic prepositions commonly precede their complements. Sindhi uses postpositions, and the noun before a postposition may have an oblique form. A target phrase can therefore move the relationship word to the other side of its noun and alter the noun’s final vowel without changing the item being discussed.
The Sindhi teaching example qalama sāñ, with a pen, differs from the citation form qalamu, pen. For an Arabic writing instruction, distinguish the instrument from the surface on which somebody writes. The target must keep both relationships, even though neither follows the Arabic placement mechanically. Do not restore a final vowel from the dictionary without checking whether the following postposition requires the changed form. A familiar Arabic-derived noun can obey Sindhi grammar after borrowing.
An owner relationship has its own agreement
Arabic possession can use a noun-attached owner suffix or a construct phrase linking a possessed noun to a following owner. Sindhi genitive constructions organise these relationships through their own postpositional and agreement patterns. The ending associated with a Sindhi genitive need not identify a male or female owner in the way an Arabic personal suffix can.
For an Arabic phrase meaning someone’s name or someone’s several documents, identify the possessed expression separately from the owner. A source contrast between a male owner and a female owner is different from a target contrast determined by the noun being possessed. Likewise, replacing one document with several can require changes within the target possessive construction while the owner stays the same. Check the full phrase rather than match the Arabic suffix to whichever Sindhi element happens to appear at the noun boundary.
Sindhi letters must not be reduced to the Arabic alphabet
The target’s Arabic-derived script contains distinctions that Arabic readers may not encounter in ordinary Arabic spelling. For example, ب and ٻ are different Sindhi letters; ج and ڄ are also distinct. Their added dots are not optional vowel marks or decorative variations on one Arabic character.
When copying an Arabic-to-Sindhi result, preserve the complete target characters rather than normalise unfamiliar shapes into the nearest Arabic letter. The shared right-to-left direction does not make every character interchangeable. A person’s Arabic name may appropriately retain its established spelling, while the surrounding Sindhi words still require Sindhi letters and grammatical forms. Keep that distinction when preparing a bilingual message: source-script familiarity should help identify the name, not justify rewriting the target vocabulary. Also preserve the target’s noun endings and following postpositions together. A small visual edit can alter a sound distinction or obscure a relationship that the translated instruction needs.
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