«الهعخع»
The name of a plant grazed by camels.
The arrangement of guttural sounds makes this word burdensome to articulate. Its phonetic defect is not the absence of a referent: the expression names a plant, but its sound sequence is awkward.
Do not confuse this with semantic obscurity. Sound discord concerns articulation; gharābah concerns recognizing the intended meaning.
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Fasāḥah: Foundations and the Three Defects of a Word
«الهعخع»
The name of a plant grazed by camels.
The arrangement of guttural sounds makes this word burdensome to articulate. Its phonetic defect is not the absence of a referent: the expression names a plant, but its sound sequence is awkward.
Do not confuse this with semantic obscurity. Sound discord concerns articulation; gharābah concerns recognizing the intended meaning.