Dogri to Arabic: rebuild possession around the correct head noun
The possessor can change sides of the noun
Sawhney illustrates Dogri possession with mer-a kar, my house, placing the possessor before the possessed noun. Arabic idafa constructions instead start with the possessed or affiliated head and follow it with the dependent noun. The Arabic grammar reference illustrates this with relationships such as a company’s manager. A translation must rebuild that dependency rather than preserve the Dogri sequence as a string of matching words.
For an original scenario involving a teacher’s room, first identify the room as the head and the teacher as the person linked to it. The Arabic construction must still name a room, not accidentally a teacher associated with a room. This matters especially when both nouns could plausibly describe a real relationship: a school director and a director’s school are not interchangeable expressions, even though they involve the same two lexical ideas.
Dogri genitive agreement does not identify the owner’s gender
The Dogri description states that the genitive marker agrees with the head noun in gender, number and case. Consequently, a feminine genitive form can reflect a feminine possessed noun rather than a female owner. Arabic possession must be selected according to its own construction, including any personal possessor suffix. A Dogri agreeing ending should not be converted into an Arabic female-owner reference without identifying what controls that ending.
A person can own both a house and a book while the Dogri possessive expressions change according to the possessed nouns. That change does not mean the owner has changed. In a translation of household belongings, keep a stable account of who owns each item and separately identify which item is the head of each phrase. This prevents noun agreement from becoming a false assertion about a person.
An adjective after an Arabic chain still needs an attachment
The Arabic reference explains that an adjective can follow an idafa and modify different nouns within the chain. Case, gender agreement and context help identify the intended attachment. Dogri may place a descriptive adjective before the noun it modifies, so copying its position is not an adequate way to preserve that link in Arabic.
Consider a source describing an old teacher’s room. Does old describe the teacher or the room? Those are different meanings even if the same two nouns occur in the possessive relationship. Before translating, identify the property’s target, then build the Arabic noun chain and adjective agreement to retain it. A clear Dogri attachment should not become an avoidable Arabic ambiguity merely because the noun order changes. The reference also locates definiteness at the end of an idafa chain and restricts articles on non-final members. Repeating an article on every Arabic noun is therefore not a dependable substitute for understanding the chain’s structure.
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