LessonsSimple and Compound Expressions: Terms and Their Semantic DivisionsQuiz

قد ينقسم المفرد بتقسيم آخر
The simple term admits a further division.

We now classify it by the number of meanings it carries: one conventionally specified meaning, or several meanings. This is a different criterion from the earlier threefold distinction between ism, kalimah and adāh.

For one meaning, the next question is whether that meaning can be predicated of more than one individual. For several meanings, we investigate whether separate meanings were assigned from the outset or whether a term was later transferred from one sense to another.

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A second division: one meaning or several

Simple and Compound Expressions: Terms and Their Semantic Divisions

قد ينقسم المفرد بتقسيم آخر
The simple term admits a further division.

We now classify it by the number of meanings it carries: one conventionally specified meaning, or several meanings. This is a different criterion from the earlier threefold distinction between ism, kalimah and adāh.

For one meaning, the next question is whether that meaning can be predicated of more than one individual. For several meanings, we investigate whether separate meanings were assigned from the outset or whether a term was later transferred from one sense to another.