"رَقَم هاتِف لُبْنانِيّ"

Translation: a Lebanese phone number

[Martin358481]

[[raqam-u haatif-in] lubnan-ee]] = "[(the)[Lebanese] number [of a phone]]"?

Am I parsing this right? But why does it come out as indefinite (a phone number)? I thought that iDafaas are automatically always definite... Is it because haatif-in is indefinite, the whole construct becomes indefinite?

[AmineHadji1]

Yes, exactly! It's because the second part is also indefinite, making the whole phrase indefinite.

If one had to translate literally رَقَم هاتِف, it would be "the number of a phone". In this construction, we can deduce that a phone has only one possible number. However, since the phone is not define, the number is not define either.