The words indicating short women in al-Muhkam by Ibn Sayyidah, a study in light of the theory of semantic fields

Abstract

The Arabs paid great attention to the attributes of things. They observed the attributes of things and created words for them that express these attributes and show the semantic differences in them. Among these attributes that the Arabs observed in ancient times is the attribute of shortness. The Arab began to use multiple words for the same thing in order to notice this attribute, and to examine these words and explain the differences. between them and the semantic development that occurred therein. This research came to monitor it in the al-Muhkam dictionary of Ibn Sayyidah, and took the theory of semantic fields as a path and method for it, and monitored the words of women This research came to monitor it in the al-Muhkam dictionary of Ibn Sayyidah, and took the theory of semantic fields as its path and method, and monitored the words of women that indicated the characteristic of shortness, so its title was ((The words indicating short women in al-Muhkam by Ibn Sayyidah, a study in light of the theory of semantic fields)), and it was We distributed these words according to semantic fields, so they were in two fields: (the field of words indicating the characteristic of shortness in a woman without being associated with another characteristic), and (the field of words indicating the characteristic of shortness in a woman while being associated with another characteristic). The two fields were divided into other small fields, The order of the two fields in the research was according to the abundance of words in them, We also followed this method in arranging the subfields, so that most of them presented at least two words, and we arranged the words in one field in alphabetical order according to the first words with abstraction. (There were forty words. The semantic development in some of them had an effect in coloring them with the meaning of shortness, and some of them were transferred to From the field of animals, especially animals that are characterized by shortness and smallness, to the field of humans (women) through simile methods.