Faᶜala and afᶜala: Form and Meaning from Linguistic and Qur'anic Perspectives.

This paper studies faᶜala and afᶜala, two of the most widely used verbal forms in Arabic, and surveys the observation of this phenomenon from two perspectives: form and meaning. It attempts to determine whether the verbal constructions faᶜala and afᶜala can conform in meaning and take on the same sense, or if an intensification of structure is inevitably accompanied by a semantic intensification in accordance with the relationship of dependence that governs the Arabic verbal forms. To this end, this study pays specific attention to verbal structure in an attempt to discover the relationship between the root form and the fourth form from linguistic and Qur'anic points of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]