Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics

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Fāʿil

(1,497 words)

Author(s): Hassan Salam Bazzi Hamzé
1. Definition The fāʿil (lit. ‘he who does’) corresponds, in the analysis of the Arab grammarians, to the protagonist of the verb. It is the primary element to which the verb relates (Sībawayhi, Kitāb I, 33–34), meaning that the verb “does not go without it” (Sīrāfī, Šarḥ II, 267). In fact, the verb ( fiʿl) and its fāʿil constitute a pair “each of whose two elements cannot go without the other, and which the speaker cannot do without” ( lā yaġnā wāḥidun min-humā ʿan al-ʾāxar wa-lā yajidu l-mutakallim min-hu buddan; Sībawayhi, Kitāb I, 23). For the Arab grammarians, the fāʿil is a syntactic fu…
Source: Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics
Date: 2018-04-01

Farsi

(4 words)

see Persian
Source: Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics
Date: 2018-04-01

Faṣīḥ

(4,439 words)

Author(s): Georgine Ayoub
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002) defines grammar ( naḥw) as follows: “It is to follow the way the Arabs speak… so that the non-Arabs might have access to the Arabs' faṣāḥa” ( Xaṣāʾiṣ I, 34). More than a thousand years later, written Arabic is still called al-luġa al-fuṣḥā. This shows how the notion of faṣāḥa is an essential component of Arab language thinking. The root f-ṣ-ḥ is very ancient and is found in other Semitic languages. From f-ṣ-ḥ is derived fiṣḥ ‘Jewish Passover’, also ‘Christian Easter’ (Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān, s.v.). In some Semitic languages, f-ṣ-ḥ is explicitly associated with somethi…
Source: Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics
Date: 2018-04-01

Feminine

(4 words)

see Gender
Source: Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics
Date: 2018-04-01

F (fa- - Folmer, M.L.)

(2,098 words)

fa- ʿAmal, Conjunctions, Connectives, Deixis, Discourse Analysis, Energicus, Grounding, Jazāʾ, Kalām, Media Arabic, Middle Verbs, Poetic Koine, Polarity, Sentence Coordination, Sentence Coordination, Theme/Rheme, Translation Literature, Word Order fa-, resumptive Connectives faʿal Ism faʿala Middle Verbs faʿāli Interjection, Ism al-fiʿl, Lexicography: Classical Arabic Faber, Alice Dialects: Genesis, Northwest Arabian Arabic, South Semitic Languages fable Proverb face affront Dysphemism face saving Dysphemism facial expression in sign language Sign Languages fac…
Source: Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics
Date: 2018-04-01

F (Fontinoy, Charles - Fyodorova, El’vira)

(1,275 words)

Fontinoy, Charles Pseudodual foot Phonology, Phonology: Metrical foot assignment rule Phonology: Metrical foot dominance Phonology: Metrical foot, binary Phonology: Metrical foot, degenerate Stress, Stress foot, iambic Phonology, Phonology: Metrical, Syncope foot, left-dominant Phonology, Phonology: Metrical foot, metrical Ḥarf, Phonology: Metrical foot, poetic Rhyme, foot, right-dominant Phonology, Phonology: Metrical foot, trochaic Phonology, Phonology: Metrical, Syncope Force Subordination foreground Contrastive Grammar, Grounding, Topic and Comme…
Source: Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics
Date: 2018-04-01