| Abbreviated sentence (gramm.): A sentence with some deleted parts. | جملة مختصرة |
| Abbreviation (comm.): The omission of part of the word or group of words. | اختصار |
| Ablaut (phon.): a systematic variation of vowels in the same root or affix or in related roots or affixes esp. | تناوب الصوائت |
| Abnormal vowel (phon.): check central vowel. | صائت شاذ |
| Abridged clause (gramm.): A phrase that doesn’t contain a finite verb. | عبارة مختصرة |
| Abrupt release (phon.): The sudden emission of sounds. | إطلاق مفاجئ |
| Absolute ablative (gramm.): a grammatical case expressing typically the relations of separation and source and also frequently such relations as cause or instrument. | مفعول عنه مطلق |
| Absolute adjective (gramm.): An adjective that falls at the beginning of a sentence. | نعت مطلق |
| Absolute adverb (gramm.): An adverb that is located at the beginning of the sentence. | ظرف مطلق |
| Absolute object (gramm.): check cognate object. | مفعول مطلق |
| Absolute phrase (gramm.): A construction that doesn’t connect to the rest of the sentence grammatically. | شبه جملة مطلق |
| Absolute speech (semio.): check displaced speech. | كلام الغيبة |
| Absolute synonymy (sem.): Real synonymy. | ترادف مطلق |
| Abstract noun (gramm.): A noun that indicates something abstract like an idea or thought. | اسم مجرد |
| Abstract sound (phon.): A phoneme that is taking out of everything and separated from everything. | صوت مجرد |
| Abstraction (comm.): Abstraction is the process or result of generalization by reducing the information content of a concept or an observable phenomenon, typically in order to retain only information which is relevant for a particular purpose. | تجريد |
| Accent (phon.): an articulate effort giving prominence to one syllable over adjacent syllables; the prominence thus given a syllable. | لكنة |
| Accentology (phon.): The study of accents in all aspects. | علم النبر |
| Accessory verb (gramm.): check auxiliary verb. | فعل مساعد |
| Accessory word (gramm.): A word which act like a function word. | كلمة وظيفية |
| Accuracy (comm.): The ability of the speaker to build complete sentences. | دقة |
| Acquisition (psycho.): The process of learning the native language in children. | اكتساب |
| Acquisition (app.): The process of learning a foreign language. | اكتساب |
| Acrology (graph.): The study of acronyms. | اقتطاع هجائي |
| Acronym (comm.): An abbreviation that is pronounced as a word. | مقتطع هجائي |
| Active case (gramm.): asserting that the person or thing represented by the grammatical subject performs the action represented by the verb. See also voice, middle, passive. | حالة التوافق |
| Active participle (gramm.): check present principle. | اسم الفاعل |
| Active turn (gramm.): Active voice is a voice that indicates a subject has the semantic function of actor. | صيغة المبني للمعلوم |
| Active verb (gramm.): Voice verb. | فعل مبني للمعلوم |
| Active verb (gramm.): A transitive verb. | فعل متعد |
| Actor (gramm. /sem.): The real subject of the sentence. | فاعل حقيقي |
| Acute (phon.): An adjective to describe a sound with high frequencies. | عالي التردد |
| Adage (comm.): A synonym for proverb. | مثل |
| Adaption theory (ling.): A theory that says that similarities in meaning lead to similar lexical construction. | نظرية التطويع |
| Adequacy (ling. /gramm.): Ways to test for grammar knowledge and skilss. | كفاية |
| Adherent adjective (gramm.): An adjective with a constant attribute. | نعت لصيق |
| Adjective clause (gramm.): A clause that contains an adjective. | عبارة نعتية |
| Adjunctive (gramm.): a word or word group that qualifies or completes the meaning of another word or other words and is not itself a main structural element in its sentence. | مضاف |
| Adult language (psycho.): The language used by adults not children. | لغة الكبار |
| Adverbial (gramm.): word or word group having the function of an adverb. | ظرفي |
| Adynaton (styl.): The exaggeration to the reach of the impossible. | غلو |
| Affiliation (ling.): The relationship between languages from the same origin. | انتساب |
| Affinity (ling.): The degree of similarities between two languages. | تقارب |
| Affirmation (gramm.): The exact opposite of negation. | إثبات |
| Affix (gramm.): one or more sounds or letters occurring as a bound form attached to the beginning or end of a word, base, or phrase or inserted within a word or base and serving to produce a derivative word or an inflectional form. | زائدة |
| Affixation (gramm.): Affixation is the morphological process whereby an affix is attached to a root or stem. | زيادة |
| Affricated (phon.): a stop and its immediately following release into a fricative that are considered to constitute a single phoneme (as the [t] and [] of [t] in choose). | مزجي |
| Agent (gramm /sem.): The real subject that did the act. | فاعل حقيقي |
| Agglomeration (ling.): bounding. | التصاق |
| Agraphia (clin.): A disorder in writing in which a person cannot write properly. | اضطراب الكتابة |
| Agreement (gramm.): When two linguistic elements match in terms of gender, number and other things. | مطابقة |
| Algebraic linguistics (ling.): A branch of linguistics that depends on describing the language based on mathematical and logical methods. | علم اللغة الجبري |
| Alien word (ling.): A word that taken from another language. | كلمة دخيلة |
| Alienism (ling.): check above. | كلمة دخيلة |
| Allomorph (gramm.): A substitute for morphemes. | بديل صرفي |
| Allongment (phon.): The act of lengthening. | إطالة |
| Allonym (comm.): A substitute for nouns. | بديل اسمي |
| Alphabet (graph.): A group of written that represent all the letters in the language. | ألفباء |
| Alphabetic method (app. /psycho.): A teaching method to learn the alphabet and its specially used to teach children. | منهج ألفبائي |
| Alteration (sem.): A change that occurs on the meaning of a word and gives it a new meaning. | تعديل |
| Alveo palatal (phon.): A sound that made by the tongue reaching up to the palatal area. | غاري لثوي |
| Alveolar (phon.): A phone produced when the tongue touches the tooth ridge behind the teeth (alveolus). | لثوي |
| Alveolar ridge (phon.): A bony edge that is located directly behind the upper teeth. | طرف اللثة |
| Alveolar suffix (gramm.):A kind of suffix that is pronounced using alveolar sound. | لاحقة لثوية |
| Ambiguity (gramm. /sem.): is the property of being ambiguous, where a word, term, notation, sign, symbol, phrase, sentence, or any other form used for communication, is called ambiguous if it can be interpreted in more than one way. | لبس |
| Ambiguous (gramm. /sem.): An adjective for ambiguity. | ملتبس |
| Ambivalent word (sem.): A word that has two opposite meaning. | كلمة ضدية |
| Americanism (comm.): The way Americans use and speak the English language. | محاك للأمريكية |
| Anacoluthon (gramm. /styl.): Is to begin a sentence then to move to another one before completing the first one. | بتر الجملة |
| Anagram (comm.): An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once. | جناس تصحيفي |
| Analogue (ling.): A word that partial equivalent to another word in another language. | نظير |
| Analphabet (comm.): A synonym for illiterate. | أمي |
| Analysis (ling.): the use of function words instead of inflectional forms as a characteristic device of a language. | تحليل |
| Analytic language (ling.): The language used in the analysis. | لغة تحليلية |
| Anantpodoton (gramm. /styl.): check Anacoluthon. | بتر الجملة |
| Ananym (comm.): Reversed noun. | اسم معكوس |
| Ancestor language (ling.): The language that is the origin of many languages. | لغة المنشأ |
| Annomination (styl.): A synonym for paronomasia. | تورية |
| Anomalous (ling.): any linguistics element that is irregular. | شاذ |
| Anomia (clin.): When a person can’t remember names and nouns. | لا أسمائية |
| Anomoiosis (styl.): To come up with contrast thoughts. | تقابل |
| Antiphrasis (styl.): The use of a word in its non-conventional meaning. | قلب المعنى |
| Antipodes (sem.): Converse terms. | متناقضان |
| Antonomasia (sem. /styl.): check metonymy. | كناية |
| Aorist (gramm.): A term that is borrowed from Greek to indicate past tense. | ماض مبهم |
| Aphorism (comm.): A very brief and concise saying that represents a general fact. | حكمة |
| Application (sem.): The use of a linguistic element in a context. | تطبيق |
| Applicational grammar (gramm.): The name of the theory invented by the Soviet scientist Saumjan. | النحو التطبيقي |
| Applied lexicography (app.): A branch of lexicography that is concerned with the practical aspect of lexicography for example the making of dictionaries. | علم المفردات التطبيقي |
| Applied linguistics (app.): Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field of study that identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and sociology. | علم اللغة التطبيقي |
| Applied psycholinguistics (app.): A branch of applied linguistics that deals with the psychological aspect of linguistics. | علم اللغة النفسي التطبيقي |
| Arabization (comm.): The addition of Arabic tint on a linguistic element in another language. | تعريب |
| Archaic word (comm.): a word that is not used nowadays. | كلمة مهجورة |
| Areal linguistics (ling.): In linguistics, an areal feature is any typological feature shared by languages within the same geographical area. | علم اللغة الاقليمي |
| Articulacy (comm.): The skill of pronunciation. | مهارة نطقية |
| Articulation (phon.): Manner of articulation, how speech organs involved in making a sound make contact. | نطق |
| Articulatory defect (clin.): A verbal defect in which a person can not pronounce words the right way. | عيب نطقي |
| Artificial intelligence (ling.): (AI) is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it. Major AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents. | ذكاء اصطناعي |
| Assembly language (comm.): The language of the computer. | لغة التجميع |
| Assertive pronoun (gramm.): A positive pronoun. | ضمير تأكيدي |
| Assertive sentence (gramm.): A positive declarative sentence. | جملة تأكيدية |
| Assimilation (phon.): a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound. | مماثلة |
| Assonance (poet.): The repetition of a consonant for rhetorical reasons. | سجع الصوئت |
| Attribute (gramm.): The quality which the hearer distinguishes the sound from other different sounds. | نعت لصيق |
| Attribute (sem.): The quality of the meaning of a word. | خاصية |
| Augment (gramm.): A prefix used in the past to indicate past tense. | بادئة صرفية |
| Augmentation (gramm.): check affixation. | زيادة |
| Augmentative (gramm.): An adjective used to describe the word that was used with an augmentative suffix. | مفخم |
| Augmentative suffix (gramm.): A suffix used to emphasize and embrace. | لاحقة تفخيمية |
| Automatic translation (comm.): A translation made or done by a computer not a human being. | ترجمة آلية |
| Auxiliary (gramm.): not primary, helping and assisting. | مساعد |
| Auxiliary element (gramm.): Is a non-terminal element. | عنصر مساعد |
| Auxiliary verb (gramm.): An auxiliary verb is a verb which accompanies the lexical verb of a verb phrase, and expresses grammatical distinctions not carried by the lexical verb. | فعل مساعد |
| Avalent (gramm.): An adjective used to describe a linguistic element. | غير متكافئ |
