«حَيٌّ مُسْتَوِي الْقَامَةِ، عَرِيضُ الْأَظْفَارِ»
“A living being of upright stature and broad nails.”
This combined description is employed to direct the mind toward a human being. The combination of features supplies recognition that a single characteristic may not provide.
It illustrates kināyah about an entity (mawṣūf): the aim is not merely to describe posture and nails but to identify the subject indicated by the total description.
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Representative and Implicit Metaphor, Imaginative Attribution and Kināyah
«حَيٌّ مُسْتَوِي الْقَامَةِ، عَرِيضُ الْأَظْفَارِ»
“A living being of upright stature and broad nails.”
This combined description is employed to direct the mind toward a human being. The combination of features supplies recognition that a single characteristic may not provide.
It illustrates kināyah about an entity (mawṣūf): the aim is not merely to describe posture and nails but to identify the subject indicated by the total description.