This study is an attempt to investigate the semantic and syntactic features of English and Arabic verbs of eating. After surveying the literature on the meaning of verbs in both languages, three chapters address the major issues in this subject. The problem to be investigated in this study can be summarized in the following points: 1. The overlapping of semantic and syntactic features within the category of verbs of eating in English and Arabic. 2. Which semantic classification is more accurate and through which method? 3. Which classification, the semantic or the syntactic, is more important? This study hypothesized the following: 1. The semantic features are more influential in analyzing the category of verbs of eating than the syntactic

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  البحث هو مخطوط لعبد الملك بن علي البكريّ الصديقيّ (ت896ه)، انتخبه مؤلفه واختصره من كتابه: (الحَبْلِ المَتِين فِي الأَذكَارِ وَالأَدْعِيَةَ المَأثُورَةَ عَنْ سَيِّدِ المُرْسِلِينَ)، ليسهل على القارئ حمله وحفظه وتداوله، تحدث فيه عن فضل الدُّعاء والذكر وأهمية ذلك في حياة المسلم، وقد رتبه على سبعة فصول وهي: الأَوَّلُ: فِي مُقَدَّمَاتِ الدُّعَاءِ والذَّك

This research deals with the rhetoric purposes of the passive voice in the holy Quran. First, we put an introductory to the concept of the Quran language and its difference of the spoken Arabic language during the revelation period. Besides; we gave a brief about the structure passive voice form of Arabic language. Second, we explained the purposes of passive voice used in the holly Quran with sufficient examples, commentaries and clarifications about all the cases. Rhetoric purposes that we deals with are: concision, emphasize an idea, avoid using the subject because it is known and clear for all or because it is really unknown, etc. This part has contained the most important purposes for the use of passive voice in holy Quran. At the end

This work is devoted to a comparative study of the phenomenon of enantiosemy in Russian and Arabic.Everyone knows the term antonyms - words of the same part of speech, opposite in meaning, such as: Day and night, white and black, truth and lies. But in Russian, Arabic and other languages there is an interesting phenomenon, which consists in the fact that one word has two opposite meanings. Such a phenomenon in linguistics is called enantiosemy (from the Greek words enantios - "opposite" and sema - "sign")