Leksika za boje u arapskom (morfološko-semanttčki osvrt)
Colour lexis in arabic (Morphological and Syntactic Review)

Summary/Abstract: In the brief »Introduction« (page 227-229) the author pointed out the abundance of the chromatic vocabulary of literary Arabic (the greatest abundance among the Semitic languages). However, the problem of colour in Arabic has not been fully studied even in the narrow linguistic area (in the form of a monograph), not even the lexical material itself has been completely compiled. The present paper does not have pretensions to do that, partly because of the size of the problem itself and its complexity, and partly because of the lack of necessary original literature on which further research, even in the limited area of lexicography itself, should be based. The present author just wanted to point out some specific features of that lexis and to stress the need and importance of its further, more thorough and comprehensive study. Colour-lexis in . Arabic has a large number of roots, that more or less directly denote the idea of colour (i. e. its tonality), different shades, combinations and other similar meanings (but it would first have to be establi. shed whether those are that original meanings of those roots). Except for those roots, there are in Arabic numerous single words (or smaller groups of them) the meanings of which are connected with the idea of colour in varying degrees, but have been derived from the roots which originally denoted other ideas, which sometimes, at least at the first glance, had no semantic connection with the meanings of those words (i. e. with the notion of colour). Those words, as well as the roots from which they were derived, should get more attention than before, when etymologically and semantically analysed. The present paper is limited mostly to the discussion of forms and their meanings in the area of colour-lexis in Arabic, compiled in a relatively recent work, the dictionary of colours (that was: Abdul-'Aziz Ben 'Abdallah, Mu'gamu-l-alāwan, published in the journal: Al-Lisānu-l-arabi, copy X, part 3, page 216-300, Rabat 1992/1973). The glossary contains 350 lexical units primarily for the colours themselves, and for some related notions as well. That material had to some extent been supplemented, from other materials. At the end of this part it was emphasised that the study of Arabic chromatic vocabulary was of primary importance for the area of Arab lexis as a whole, at the time of the modern rennaissance of Arab studies, but it is also important for the related scientific areas such as physiology, psychology, ethnology, sociology, physics and others, each of which can contribute in its way to shedding more light on the phenomenon of colour from its various aspects.

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