Fasāḥah: Foundations and the Three Defects of a Word
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- What belongs to the lexical meaning of fasāḥah?
- What does “afṣaḥa al-ṣabiyy” illustrate?
- Which three can be described as eloquent technically?
- What are the three defects excluded by fasāḥat al-kalimah?
- What most directly characterizes tanāfur al-ḥurūf?
- Which word is used as an example of sound discord?
- What does al-huʿkhuʿ denote?
- What is the meaning of al-naqqākh?
- Why is al-mustashzir discussed under sound discord?
- Is every long Arabic word necessarily discordant?
- What kind of defect is mukhālafat al-qiyās?
- What is the expected plural contrasted with būqāt?
- What is being judged in būqāt?
- What follows from the concept of poetic necessity?
- Which subject is central to the difference between موددة and مودّة?
- What is central to the definition of gharābah?
- What does takaʾkaʾa mean?
- Which meaning is closest to ifranqaʿa?
- Which meaning belongs to iṭlakhamm?
- A word is easy to pronounce, but its plural violates the relevant pattern. What is the chief defect?
- How should al-huʿkhuʿ, būqāt, and takaʾkaʾa be classified in order?
- Does a student’s unfamiliarity automatically establish technical gharābah?
- What is a sound method for judging word-level eloquence?
- How are word-level and utterance-level eloquence related?
- Sound discord can result from an arrangement of letters that makes pronunciation heavy.
- A word with a pleasant meaning must also be phonetically eloquent.
- Violation of qiyās concerns morphological formation, not simply word length.
- In the textbook example, takaʾkaʾa means “to gather.”
- Freedom from sound discord alone is enough for word-level eloquence.