Category:Arabic terms by usage
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Arabic terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.
- Category:Arabic archaic terms: Arabic terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Arabic autological terms: Arabic terms that possess the property they themselves describe.
- Category:Arabic childish terms: Arabic terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
- Category:Arabic colloquialisms: Arabic terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
- Category:Arabic dated terms: Arabic terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
- Category:Arabic derogatory terms: Arabic terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
- Category:Arabic dialectal terms: Arabic terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
- Category:Arabic endearing terms: Arabic terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
- Category:Arabic familiar terms: Arabic terms whose use is typically to contexts of friendly intimacy.
- Category:Arabic formal terms: Arabic terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
- Category:Arabic hapax legomena: Arabic terms that are attested only once in the entire corpus.
- Category:Arabic higher register terms: Arabic terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
- Category:Arabic historical terms: Arabic terms that refer to obsolete things or concepts.
- Category:Arabic humorous terms: Arabic terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
- Category:Arabic informal terms: Arabic terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
- Category:Arabic nonstandard terms: Arabic terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
- Category:Arabic obsolete terms: Arabic terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
- Category:Arabic offensive terms: Arabic terms that are typically considered to offend people.
- Category:Arabic oxymorons: Arabic terms that are juxtapositions of opposing ideas.
- Category:Arabic placeholder terms: Arabic terms used to refer to items for which one does not know or cannot recall the name, or is unable to or does not care to specify precisely.
- Category:Arabic poetic terms: Arabic terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
- Category:Arabic proscribed terms: Arabic terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
- Category:Arabic puristic terms: Arabic terms adopted for linguistic purism.
- Category:Arabic rare terms: Arabic terms that are rare in general use, for whatever reason.
- Category:Arabic rustic terms: Arabic terms whose use is typically restricted rural speech.
- Category:Arabic short forms: Arabic terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
- Category:Arabic slang: Arabic colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
- Category:Arabic terms with archaic senses: Arabic terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Arabic terms with historical senses: Arabic terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
- Category:Arabic terms with obsolete senses: Arabic terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
- Category:Arabic terms with rare senses: Arabic rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
- Category:Arabic terms with uncertain meaning: Arabic terms whose meaning is unknown or disputed.
- Category:Arabic terms with uncommon senses: Arabic uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
- Category:Arabic trademarks: Arabic terms that identify legal entities, their products and services, by means of legal protection — to some extent, in a number of jurisdictions — against unauthorized use of the terms.
- Category:Arabic uncommon terms: Arabic uncommonly used terms.
- Category:Arabic vulgarities: Arabic terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.
Subcategories
This category has the following 36 subcategories, out of 36 total.
A
- Arabic autological terms (0 c, 10 e)
C
- Arabic childish terms (0 c, 2 e)
- Arabic colloquialisms (0 c, 53 e)
D
- Arabic derogatory terms (0 c, 32 e)
- Arabic dialectal terms (0 c, 55 e)
E
- Arabic endearing terms (0 c, 2 e)
F
- Arabic familiar terms (0 c, 1 e)
- Arabic formal terms (0 c, 14 e)
H
- Arabic hapax legomena (0 c, 12 e)
- Arabic historical terms (0 c, 20 e)
- Arabic humorous terms (0 c, 4 e)
I
N
O
- Arabic obsolete terms (0 c, 403 e)
- Arabic oxymorons (0 c, 2 e)
P
- Arabic placeholder terms (0 c, 1 e)
- Arabic poetic terms (0 c, 20 e)
- Arabic proscribed terms (0 c, 30 e)
- Arabic puristic terms (0 c, 1 e)
R
- Arabic rare terms (0 c, 76 e)
- Arabic rustic terms (0 c, 2 e)
S
- Arabic short forms (0 c, 4 e)
T
- Arabic terms with archaic senses (0 c, 100 e)
- Arabic terms with historical senses (0 c, 69 e)
- Arabic terms with uncertain meaning (0 c, 19 e)
- Arabic terms with uncommon senses (0 c, 18 e)
- Arabic trademarks (0 c, 2 e)
U
V
- Arabic vulgarities (0 c, 17 e)