What has been described as scarcity by linguists in Arabic dictionaries The Dictionary of Lisan al-Arab as a model
Bushra Abdel-Mahdi Ibrahim
College of Basic Education - Diyala University
Basma Khalaf Masoud
College of Islamic Sciences - Iraqi University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.5.3.5
Keywords: Arab scholars, Arabic dictionaries, rare concept, phenomenon
Abstract
This research was concerned with studying a linguistic phenomenon expressed as “al-Nadir or An-Nwadir” in linguistic dictionaries. The Lisan al-Arab lexicon came as a model for it, which is the document in the collection of its material for five dictionaries of language refinement, Al-muhkam , Al-sahah, and Hawashi Ibn Berri, and the end is in Gharib al-Hadith, This study attempted to reveal the concept of Al- Nadir and the reason for describing it, and to discuss its various connotations among linguists, and to clarify the closest and most famous content to it, according to the data presented to us in our research journey. And the motives for choosing it, with a brief pause to introduce the dictionary of Lisan al-Arab and the approach of Ibn Manzur in it, and how he presented the scientific subject and employing Al-Nadir in his lexicon. And then talking about the concept of “al-Nadir” by knowing its linguistic and idiomatic meaning, and the view of the ancients about a Nadir and their position on it, and standing on a Nadir in the Lisan al-Arab lexicon, as we chose issues drawn from the core of the subject of Lisan al-Arab, down to the conclusion and coming out with the most important results and course of the research.
