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Can One Lexical Item Have Two Opposite Meanings? A Semantic Study in Arabic with Reference to English | ||
| Journal of Tikrit University for the Humanities | ||
| Article 1, Volume 18, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 419-438 | ||
| Author | ||
| Muhammed Barjes Salman | ||
| Abstract | ||
| ABSTRACT Both 'Homonymy' and 'Antonymy' are well-known semantic relations in English and this research deals with another semantic relation in Arabic. This relation is Al-Adhdad, which means that one lexical item has more than one meaning and two of these meanings are opposite. The main reasons behind the appearance of Al-Adhdad are: the dialects, metaphor, social reasons, phonological development, pronunciation, borrowing and expansion. This research deals with the level of isolated lexical items, which are related to this semantic relation. Then, this semantic relation will be studied within context by using six Ayas from the Glorious Qur'an to show how to identify the intended meaning of these lexical items. Two of these Ayas show how some of these lexical items are not agreed upon their meanings by interpreters because both meanings are possible and the determiner of the meaning is then depends on the dialect that the interpreters use. Two translations are given to check whether the translators give the equivalent translations for these lexical items or not. | ||
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