Four Letter Words Formation from three letter Words

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On the formulation morphological patterns of Arabic, ancient Arab scholars differed in determining what of the nouns and verbs are bare and what are affixed Basrees regarded that base noun roots may be of three, four, or five consonants; and base verb roots may be of three or four consonants. They pointed out that affixes are the following letters: (s,Ɂ, l, t, m, w, n , j, h, a). Kufees, on the other hand, claimed that base noun and verb roots comprise only three consonants and that any letter above three is an affixed letter. Ibn Faris emphasized that most the three and four letter words are blended from three letter words and that affixes exceed the number claimed by the Basrees amongst which is the /b/ letter. 
In the modern era, knowledge of scripts of Semitic languages or of what remained alive from those languages such as Syriac and Hebrew helped the scholars of Arabic understand many phenomena that seemed inadequate for the linguistic description to rely on in analyzing these phenomena, especially for ancient Arab scholars. That includes how the four-letter words are formed and developed.
This research seeks to provide a new range of words affixed with (b) word initially which were thought of as four-consonant roots while, in fact, they are three-consonant roots.