Open AccessThe Phonosemantics of the Sibilant Sounds of the Arabic and English Languages
Author(s) -
Asst Prof Nafila Sabri Qudissya
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of research in social sciences and humanities(online)/international journal of research in social sciences and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2454-4671
pISSN - 2249-4642
DOI - 10.37648/ijrssh.v11i03.025
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , linguistics , arabic , variety (cybernetics) , consonant , element (criminal law) , computer science , mathematics , psychology , artificial intelligence , philosophy , vowel , political science , law , psychotherapist
Understanding the general meaning of phonemes and their combinations helps to guess themeaning of unknown words intuitively. The aim of this paper is to examine a group of Arabicas well as English phoneme combinations as examples to prove they have some specificcommon meaning, a so-called DNA that can be traced in all given words. Thus, a group ofselected words were chosen from the Holy Qur'an whose language represents the ClassicalArabic variety. It has been assumed that the relationship between phonemes and what theysignify is non-arbitrary. It is determined that certain consonant combinations retain theirmeanings. Thus, upon closer examination, words that are not similar to one another but whichhave identical consonant phonemes combinations bear an element of meaning which is absentin words not containing such combinations.