LessonsFasāḥah: Foundations and the Three Defects of a WordQuiz

«والغرابة: كون الكلمة غير ظاهرة المعنى»
Gharābah means that a word's intended meaning is not readily apparent.

An expression may be so rare in ordinary usage that its sense must be recovered from specialized lexical evidence. A listener then cannot readily identify the intended meaning from the word alone.

This is a semantic problem. It should be distinguished from the articulation problem of sound discord and the formal problem of morphological irregularity.

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What gharābah means

Fasāḥah: Foundations and the Three Defects of a Word

«والغرابة: كون الكلمة غير ظاهرة المعنى»
Gharābah means that a word's intended meaning is not readily apparent.

An expression may be so rare in ordinary usage that its sense must be recovered from specialized lexical evidence. A listener then cannot readily identify the intended meaning from the word alone.

This is a semantic problem. It should be distinguished from the articulation problem of sound discord and the formal problem of morphological irregularity.