LessonsProhibition: Refraining, Rhetorical Functions and Responses to RequestsQuiz

لِأَنَّهُ الْمُتَبَادَرُ إِلَى الْفَهْمِ
Because that meaning is understood immediately.

Tabādur is the immediately apprehended sense of a form in the absence of a special clue. Normally lā tafʿal first suggests a genuine prohibition, supporting restraint as its primary signification.

A primary meaning does not exhaust contextual usage. Speaker–addressee relations, tone and circumstances may lead the same form to signify a threat, supplication or entreaty. Those shifts are indicated by contextual evidence.

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Primary meaning and tabādur

Prohibition: Refraining, Rhetorical Functions and Responses to Requests

لِأَنَّهُ الْمُتَبَادَرُ إِلَى الْفَهْمِ
Because that meaning is understood immediately.

Tabādur is the immediately apprehended sense of a form in the absence of a special clue. Normally lā tafʿal first suggests a genuine prohibition, supporting restraint as its primary signification.

A primary meaning does not exhaust contextual usage. Speaker–addressee relations, tone and circumstances may lead the same form to signify a threat, supplication or entreaty. Those shifts are indicated by contextual evidence.