Jul 2026· Ijaz Arabi Journal of Arabic Learning· 0 citations
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The research findings indicate that morphologically, the types of mudzakkar are haqiqi, majazi, lafdzi, ma’nawi, and dzati, while the types of mu`annats are haqiqi, majazi, lafdzi, ma’nawi, dzati, and sima’i, which enriches the study of modern Arabic grammar.
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The dynamics of the development of medical terminology in Arabic raise grammatical issues related to gender, specifically the distinction between masculine and feminine. The difference between morphological forms and syntactic behaviour leads to variations in gender usage in contemporary Arabic media texts. This trend marks the transformation of the lexical system, necessitating a review of the gender classification framework. Therefore, a systematic morphological and syntactic analysis is needed to explain the consistency and function of grammatical gender in modern scientific terms. This research aims to categorize the types of masculine and feminine gender in medical terms at the morphological and syntactic levels, and to describe the characteristics of gender classification in Arabic, particularly in loanwords, through a corpus-based approach that combines morphological and syntactic analysis within a unified analytical framework. This research employs a qualitative descriptive approach grounded in corpus linguistics. Data were collected from the newspapers An-Nahār and Akhbārul Yaum, then analyzed using the observation method, specifically the free conversation observation technique and the note-taking technique. Data analysis was conducted using the intralingual equivalence method and the distributional method with a top-down technique. The entire process of data collection and analysis is supported by Sketch Engine as a web-based linguistic corpus software, enabling the empirical mapping of gender usage patterns in modern Arabic journalistic discourse. The research findings indicate that morphologically, the types of mudzakkar are haqiqi, majazi, lafdzi, ma’nawi, and dzati, while the types of mu`annats are haqiqi, majazi, lafdzi, ma’nawi, dzati, and sima’i. The classification at the morphological level is influenced by biological sex, the presence of gender markers, gender forms in meaning, and language conventions. Meanwhile, at the syntactic level, the types of mudzakkar and mu`annats are divided into two types, namely ta’wili and hukmi, which are determined by lexical collocation. This research enriches the study of modern Arabic grammar by providing a grounded understanding of noun gender based on corpus data from medical terminology. In addition, the findings of this research can serve as a reference for Arabic language enthusiasts and speakers in consistently and accurately determining the gender of modern terms. This research also has implications for language planning and the compilation of terminology dictionaries based on empirical evidence.
This study investigates the translation of gender from English into Arabic, focusing on the performance of senior-level translation students in a literary context. Building on previous research on verbal and adjectival translation, the article adopts a mixed-methods approach combining quantitative frequency analysis with qualitative examination of error types. The corpus consists of selected passages from Naguib Mahfouz’s Midaq Alley, translated into Modern Standard Arabic by student translators. Gender-related renderings are classified as similar, different or unattempted in order to assess both accuracy and omission. The findings indicate that while gender is generally handled correctly at the lexical level, significant difficulties arise in maintaining agreement within phrases and clauses, particularly in cases involving inanimate or abstract nouns and structurally complex constructions. The study highlights the impact of grammatical asymmetry between English and Arabic on translation performance and underscores the need for more systematic instruction in contrastive grammar and contextual analysis. It contributes to a more nuanced understanding of gender as a key factor in English–Arabic literary translation and provides implications for translator training.
K. Mansoor, Daniel Dejica· Scientific Bulletin of the P...· 0 citations
This study explores the intersection of linguistic form and social meaning within Arabic-English code-mixing in relation to the morphological patterns that arise in mixed speech and their association with prestige and modern identity. Based on naturally occurring spoken and digital data and questionnaires from educated Arabic-English speakers in Saudi Arabia, the analysis reveals that morphological adaptation strategies include the introduction of English lexical items into Arabic morphological patterns, affixal incorporation, and the creation of hybrid lexical forms, whose recurrent patterns provide evidence of systematic linguistic innovation, rather than mere borrowing. These morphological adaptations are analyzed through the lens of indexicality and social meaning (Silverstein, 2003; Eckert, 2008) that correlate language choice with social aspiration, education, and symbolic capital. The occurrence of English insertions in the data is often related to prestige, global orientation and identification with a modern lifestyle, although these meanings are contextually inferred, and Arabic morphology is used as a sign of authenticity and local identity. The study argues that morphological choices in code-mixing are socially motivated, and they serve as a site for negotiating status, identity, and belonging. By drawing on morphological and sociolinguistic approaches, this study illustrates how form and meaning converge to shape prestige meanings in contemporary Arabic-English speech.
W. Alshammari· World Journal of English Lan...· 0 citations
This study investigates the structural and semantic characteristics of Arabic collocations in the Indonesia Al-Youm digital news corpus, a corpus compiled from Arabic-language online news texts reporting Indonesian social, political, cultural, and economic issues. Using Sketch Engine’s Multiword Term extraction feature, the study identifies and classifies the top 100 recurrent multiword units according to their morphosyntactic structures, grammatical functions, and semantic domains. The findings show that Arabic journalistic discourse in this corpus is dominated by nominal constructions, particularly idafah, noun–adjective patterns, and Masdar-based formations. Semantically, the collocations cluster around six domains: media identity and digital technology, politics and diplomacy, social protection and administration, economy and development, tourism, culture, and geography, and proper names. The novelty of this study lies in its corpus-based mapping of Arabic collocation patterns within an Indonesian digital news context, an area that remains underexplored in Arabic corpus linguistics. The results contribute to the description of Arabic journalistic phraseology and provide empirical input for Arabic for Specific Purposes, especially journalistic Arabic and media translation instruction.
This essay aimed to critically examine the widely held claim in contemporary Arabic linguistic research that European structuralism decisively transformed the study of Arabic grammar. To this end, a qualitative, analytical, and historical-comparative approach was adopted, based on a critical analysis of primary sources of European structuralism—primarily the works of Ferdinand de Saussure, Leonard Bloomfield, and Roman Jakobson—as well as the classical and modern Arabic grammatical tradition, represented by Sibawayh's Al-Kitāb and Tammam Hassan's work on the theory of convergence of clues (taḍāfur al-qarāʾin). The analysis was supplemented by recent scholarly literature on Arabic linguistics, structuralism, functionalism, and cognitive linguistics. The results showed that structuralism's main contribution lay not in offering new knowledge about the Arabic language, but in introducing a different epistemological criterion for evaluating the validity of linguistic explanations. This approach allowed for the identification of limitations in the classical theory of ʿāmil, although Hassan's alternative proposal also failed to conclusively resolve these difficulties when subjected to the same level of critical analysis. It is concluded that the influence of structuralism on Arabic grammar has been more methodological than theoretical, and that much of the existing literature consists of pedagogical reinterpretations rather than empirically verified developments
The article presents a comparative analysis of semantic and functional features of adjectives describing human appearance in Russian and Arabic. The study examines the linguocultural aspects of representing physical characteristics through adjectival vocabulary. The aim is to identify national and cultural specifics of verbalizing appearance in the compared linguocultures. The scientific novelty lies in the systematic description of this lexicalsemantic group from the perspective of intercultural communication. It is established that the Russian adjectival system is characterized by a predominance of neutral-descriptive function with an emphasis on analytical description of anthropometric parameters. Arabic linguoculture demonstrates syncretism of aesthetic and ethical evaluation, where physical characteristics are inextricably linked with moral qualities of the individual. Fundamental differences in functional-semantic dominants, categorization principles, gender specification and axiological components are revealed. The research results have practical significance for translation theory and practice, teaching Russian and Arabic as foreign languages, and for developing intercultural communication.
N.M. Al-Zuheiri· Vestnik of the Kyrgyz-Russia...· 0 citations
