أَنْبَتَ الْبَقْلَ شَبَابُ الزَّمَانِ
The youth of time caused the herbage to grow.
The predicate “anbata” remains in its ordinary sense of growth or causing growth, so it is lexically literal. “Shabāb al-zamān,” describing a period of time as youthful, is lexically figurative.
The growth is also attributed to that associated season rather than its proper agent. Compared with Type 1, the change lies specifically in the lexical character of the subject.
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Four Types of Rational Figurative Predication: Quranic and Nondeclarative Examples
أَنْبَتَ الْبَقْلَ شَبَابُ الزَّمَانِ
The youth of time caused the herbage to grow.
The predicate “anbata” remains in its ordinary sense of growth or causing growth, so it is lexically literal. “Shabāb al-zamān,” describing a period of time as youthful, is lexically figurative.
The growth is also attributed to that associated season rather than its proper agent. Compared with Type 1, the change lies specifically in the lexical character of the subject.