Greater Etymology What is this Tutorial About? A set of base letters (in a particular order) gives us an abstract meaning, and nothing more. Morphology will tell us which patterns we can apply to these letters, what the result of applying those patterns will be, how to conjugate the resulting word (if possible), and what tangible meaning the new word conveys. Each pattern will give a slightly different meaning, but the underlying concept afforded by the base letters will always be present. This is known as ( الاشتقاق الصغير ). Lesser Etymology works at the level of a set of base letters and it recognizes the common meanings that different words with the same root letters share. There is another type of etymology, however, called Greater Etymology ( الاشتقاق الكبير ) that recognizes the common meanings words with different base letters share.

It looks at the common thread that runs through different words that Lesser Etymology would consider completely unrelated. And it gives strong attention to the relationship between letters and the meanings that they convey.

This tutorial discusses Greater Etymology. A Note on this Topic This is by no means a mature science. It has been recorded to some degree in the books of Abu l-Fath cUthmān b. Al-Khasā’is), Abu cAli al-Fārisī, and Abu l-Fadl cAbd l-Rahmān b. Abi Bakr Jalāl l-Dīn al-Suyūti. Other revered saints have commented on this science in passing, but it remains largely undiscovered territory.

Therefore, what we present here is based on the observation of scholars such as Ibn Jinnī. There are no rules, no systematic methodologies except those we impose ourselves, and no observations are to be taken as universally applicable regulations. Subject Landscape Even after well over a millennium, this science is still experiencing its birth pangs. Here we attempt to categorize the sub-topics that it covers in order to get a better understanding of the definition and extent of this science. This science asks: What is the relationship between (base) letters and the meanings they convey?

How are different permutations of the same base letters related in meaning? Is the occurrence of a specific letter in the same position of different bases significant? O And what if more than one letter is shared? What is the significance of the form and position of extra letters? Relationship Between Letters and Meanings Onomatopoeia Often times, the letters that make up words – in terms of their sounds, their weight, and other qualities – give an indication towards the meaning they convey.

In other words, they are onomatopoeias. And this was something done intentionally by the Arabs when they were coining new words. For example, the croaking of frogs to an Anglo-Saxon would sound like “ ribbit, ribbit”. But to Arabs it sounds more like “ dafda, dafda”. Consequently, the Arabic word for frog is ضَفْدَع.

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Furthermore, the sound of someone loudly munching on food such as dates (or peanut butter) sounds like “ smack, smack”. Early Arabs recognized this sound as “ khadam, khadam”. Therefore, the Arabic word for munching is خضَم-يخضِم.

And similar to this is the sound of munching on something hard, as in an animal munching on pellets or its bridle. To us this may sound like “ cachunk, cachunk”, but to the Arabs this sounded like “ qadam, qadam”. Download Liga 1 Fifa 2007 Transferuri 2012 Election on this page. As a result, the Arabic word for munching on something hard is قضَم-يقضِم or قضِم-يقضَم. Quality in Letters vs.

Quality in Meaning The letters of the Arabic alphabet have several associated qualities such as being light or heavy, being easy to pronounce or being difficult, and so forth. Most of the qualities have been listed below.

How could it be possible to learn and understand Arabic so quickly? Here’s the secret: Not all rules and lessons are created equal. In fact, the “80/20 Rule” states that you can expect 20% of your efforts to give you 80% of all the benefits you ultimately achieve. This is especially true for the Arabic language. It has a very clear core which consists of roughly 20% of all the rules in the 3 sciences of Grammar ( nahw), Morphology ( sarf) and Rhetoric ( balagha).

The rules that belong to this 20% core have the broadest application by far. These are the fundamentals of Arabic that you would expect to encounter in practically every sentence.

But within this 20% core, there is an even DENSER inner-core which we call the “Core-4″. Without getting caught up in math, re-applying the “80/20 Rule” with the 20% core, we get an inner core of no more than 4% of all the total rules in the 3 sciences. This 4% inner core accounts for over half of all benefits! And it is the ability to properly capitalize on this very concept that allows students in our program to grow at an exponential rate. A sister who studied Arabic at Harvard university and subsequently at our intensive puts it best. Because of that, in one day of class I learned more than I learned in an entire _year_ of Harvard.

What you need in a class is someone to explain to you how the language WORKS. In only a few days of the Shariah Program, people were starting to read Arabic fluently they had already learned what each part of the sentence was, like: this is a past tense verb/this is a noun/ this is a command to a man/ this is an adjective referring to the feminine noun). That does _not_ happen in university Arabic until well after the first full year. Yes, properly capitalizing on the “80/20 rule squared” allows our students to learn mind blowing amounts of proper and well-structured Arabic in mere days. This is what makes the Shariah Program unique and its curriculum one of the most sought-after in the Western world. A Method Rooted in Tradition Now, although I haven’t seen anyone describe the study of Arabic with this 80/20 focus, this method actually isn’t new. It’s the same method that’s been effective in teaching non-Arabs how to understand and properly appreciate the Qur’an from the times of the Sahaba.

It is through the work of brilliant scholars of our past that we can even know where this core 4% is. Through their deep study, they have identified the core and central theme of the language that give us an overall, big picture understanding of how the language works.

When a student learns this before anything else, then everything else becomes so much easier. Each new piece of information has a place to fit within the larger picture. It’s easy to make connections and tie new rules to the ones that we already know.

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