فِعْلٌ
Fiʿl, a verb: in Arabic grammar, a word that denotes a meaning connected with tense.
Grammarians use this expression as a defined technical term. When the occurrence corresponds to that recognized technical meaning, it is literal within the specialized grammatical convention. The same lexical form can be evaluated differently in another discourse, but it is incorrect to call every technical use figurative.
The example shows how established professional usage and context work together to determine an assigned sense.