by William Jones

“ The Persian plural is formed by adding اَن‎ or هَا‎ to the singular: but these terminations are not wholly arbitrary; on the contrary, they are regulated with great precision. The names of animals generally form their plural in اَن‎, as,
82. But, words which signify things without life, make their plurals by adding the syllable ها‎ ”

“ This is, certainly, a considerable difficulty, which must be surmounted before the learner can translate an Indian letter: but I am persuaded, that those who chiefly complain of it have another difficulty still greater, which is their imperfect knowledge of the language. ”

“ 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 ”