التّصغير في اللغة العربية نظرة في: الدلالة والتحليل الصوتي

A Semantic and phonological analysis of the diminutive tasghir form in Arabic is addressed in this paper. Evidence from the Holly Quran, Arabic prose and poetry is adduced to supply the context and meaning of the diminutive . The disparaging, pejorative meaning of the diminutive is found not to be as common as linguists originally purported; its meaning is contextually determined. The morphological structure of the diminutive is influenced by the phonological factors of the language, for instance: the sequence of two long vowels is not permissible in the diminutive.