Table 2 Groups of Arabic synonymous verbs sharing the same deictic meaning in the Holy Qurʾān.
From: Semantic prosody of deictic verbs in the Holy Qurʾān: a corpus study
Deictic meaning | Arabic verbs |
|---|---|
sent (down) | ʔarsala |
baʕaθa | |
‘nazzala | |
‘ʔanzala | |
came | ħaˈḍara |
ʔataː | |
dʒaːʔ | |
brought | ʔaħḍara |
ʔaːtaː | |
ʔataː (bi-) | |
dʒaːʔ (bi-) |
