Fasaha of a Word: Harsh Sound, Obscurity and Irregular Form

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• Which three defects are tested for word-level fasaha?
• What is the primary objection to “mustashzirat”?
• Which best distinguishes tanafur from gharaba?
• Do adjacent articulation points necessarily cause tanafur?
• What does the length of a word fail to prove?
• What does the poetic context of “mustashzirat” describe?
• If a learner struggles to pronounce a word, is it necessarily non-fasih?
• What is the correct relation between word-level and discourse-level fasaha?
• What is the point of discussing “alam aʿhad” in the commentary?
• What two aspects characterize gharaba?
• What is central to the example “musarrajan”?
• Which quality is connected with Surayj in one interpretation of “musarrajan”?
• Which feature of a siraj informs the other proposed reading?
• What does the existence of two derivations not prove?
• If a word exists in a dictionary but its intended sense is obscure in context, what should be investigated?
• Is every word unfamiliar to a beginner technically gharīb?
• What is the primary concern of mukhalafat al-qiyas al-lughawi?
• What correctly distinguishes analogy and samaʿ?
• Which change is examined in the example “al-ajlal”?
• What if an unusual form is authentically attested in Arabic?
• What do al and maʾ illustrate in the text?
• What principle do aba yaʾba and ʿawira yaʿwaru show?
• Does matching a guessed pattern alone prove a form legitimate?
• What caution follows from the debate on karahat al-samʿ?
• Which pairing of the three textbook examples is correct?
• More letters necessarily create tanafur al-huruf.
• Gharaba involves assessing the apparent sense and familiarity of a word’s use.
• It is correct to reject attested forms like al and maʾ solely because they differ from an elementary analogy.
• The al-ajlal example chiefly examines separated consonants in contrast to established assimilation.
• The commentary uncritically establishes unpleasantness to the ear as a fourth indisputable defect.