Simple and Compound Expressions: Terms and Their Semantic Divisions

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• What primarily determines whether an expression is simple or compound?
• Why can “ʿAbd Allāh” be logically simple as a proper name?
• What is “ghulāmu Zaydin” in its ordinary possessive use?
• Under the logical division, how is “qāma” classified?
• What logical distinction separates “qiyām” from “qāma”?
• Why is “min” called an adāh?
• Why should the logician’s mufrad not simply be equated with the grammarian’s kalimah?
• On what basis is the second division of mufrad made?
• Which is correct of “Zayd” used as a personal name?
• What does “human” applying equally to Zayd, ʿAmr and Bakr illustrate?
• What is meant by equality in mutawāṭiʾ?
• What especially characterizes mushakkik?
• Which is not one of the book’s specified respects of gradation?
• Why does the text call the category mushakkik?
• Which division covers “ʿayn” meaning an eye or a spring?
• Which correctly distinguishes mushtarak from mutawāṭiʾ?
• What chiefly characterizes a transferred term (manqūl)?
• What kind of transfer does the customary narrowing of “dābbah” illustrate?
• What kind of transfer is ṣalāh from supplication to a defined act of worship?
• The specialist use of “ism” in grammar is what kind of transfer?
• Calling a brave man “asad” while the animal sense remains current is what?
• Why is it wrong to label every two-sense word mushtarak immediately?
• If “asad” and “layth” both mean lion, what is their relation?
• What does it mean that one may stop after a complete compound?
• Which distinction between “Zayd is standing” and “Zayd’s servant” is correct?
• What are the two main kinds of complete compound expression?
• Why is “Hal ḥaḍara Zayd?” complete but not a proposition?
• How is the descriptive phrase “al-rajul al-ʿālim” classified?
• Any expression with several written words is necessarily logically compound.
• Instances of a mutawāṭiʾ term must be alike in every attribute.
• The same Arabic form “ʿayn” can denote an eye or a water spring.
• Every complete compound must be capable of truth or falsity.