METHODS OF ENRICHING THE LEXICON OF ARABIC LANGUAGE Cover Image

NAČINI OBOGAĆIVANJA LEKSIKONA ARAPSKOG JEZIKA
METHODS OF ENRICHING THE LEXICON OF ARABIC LANGUAGE

Author(s): Mersiha Čaušević
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Foreign languages learning, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: ISLAMSKI PEDAGOŠKI FAKULTET U BIHAĆU
Keywords: method; word formation; derivation; root; paradigm; contamination; arabization; allegorical meaning; suffix;

Summary/Abstract: Language development is a product of cultural and civilizational heritage of its speakers. Arabic language has developed first through poetry and oral tradition of preislamic Arabians, then through sustained effort to interpret the Quran and Hadith, the two main sources of religion Islam. Certain methods are required for language development that correspond to the structure of language. In Arabic language they are analogical (qiyas), and are specific for Arabic, as a Semitic language, because they are focused primarily on the etymology (ishtiqāq), or on the etymological derivation, at the root of the word as the specificity of the language. There are also paradigmatic forms (f, ', l), based on the root of the word with an added affixation. Other methods are: contamination (naht), allegorical meaning (magaz), affixation with an existing word, annexation ('iḍāfa), borrowing foreign words (iqtirāḍ), and their adaptation to the Arabic language (ta'rīb). All these ways of word formation contribute to the increase of the Arabic language vocabulary.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 291-308
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Bosnian