Semantika iz trilitera izvedenih vrsta arapskih glagola
Semantics of Arabic Verbal stems Derived from Triliterat Roots

Summary/Abstract: Ahe Arabic (classical) language lexically (as well as morphologically) is the richest among all the Semitic languages. The extraordinary wealth of roots, the number of which amount to 10.000, testifies to that. The most numerous and most important among them are definitely the roots with three root-consonants, or radicals (of which there can be from 1-5 in Arabic). There are 6723 such roots, i. e. triliterals (according to our data on the basis of the corpus of »Lisanu-l-'Arab« dictionary by Ibn Manzur). The second, by their number and importance, are the roots with four radicals, i. e. quadriliterals, of which there are 2516 in the mentioined dictionary. In Arabic the verbs can be derived from these two kinds of roots only. Further morphological derivation is far more developed in triliterals, and it will be dealt with in this paper only partially, while the present work mostly deals with the semantics of the (verbal) forms derived from triliterals, and up to a point, their nominal derivatives.

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