| Dahl’s law (phon.): A phonetic law invented by Dahl. |
قانون دال |
| Damping (phon.): The distribution of phonetic energy on a large number of frequencies. |
مضاءلة |
| Dark L (phon.): The velarized alveolar lateral approximant, which may actually be pharyngealized, also known as dark l, is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. Velarization/Pharyngealization is generally associated with more dental articulations of coronal consonants so that dark l tends to be dental or denti-alveolar while clear l tends to be retracted to an alveolar position. |
لام مفخمة |
| Dark vowel (phon.): A vowel that is produced from the back of the mouth and tongue. |
صائت خلفي |
| Dead language (comm.): A language that was used before but not now (extinct language). |
لغة ميتة |
| Dead letter (comm.): A silent letter in a word that is not pronounced. |
حرف غير ملفوظ |
| Deaf language (comm.): The sign language of the deaf. |
لغة الصم |
| Declarative mood (gramm.): Declarative mood is an epistemic mood that signals that the proposition expressed by a speaker’s utterance is offered as an unqualified statement of fact. |
صيغة إخبارية |
| Declarative question (gramm.): A questions asked in correspondence with the declarative mood. |
سؤال إخباري |
| Declension (gramm.): The Alteration of a noun. |
تصريف (الأسماء) |
| Decomposition (gramm.): The potential of linguistic unit to be divided into lower units. |
انحلال |
| Dedialectlization (socio.): The union of dialects. |
توحيد لهجي |
| Defect (clin.): A speech defect. |
عيب كلامي |
| Deictic expression (gramm.): An expression that contains a deictic word. |
تعبير اشاري |
| Deixis (gramm.): Deixis is reference by means of an expression whose interpretation is relative to the (usually) extra linguistic context of the utterance. |
إشارية |
| Denominative (gramm.): An adjective to what was derived from a noun. |
مشتق اسمي |
| Denotation (sem.): The meaning of linguistics elements in the outside world. |
دلالة ذاتية |
| Dependency (gramm.): The relation between the structure of linguistic elements and the ability to be used alone. |
تبعية |
| Dependent pronoun (gramm.): A pronoun that must be attached to the word. |
ضمير متصل |
| Derivation (gramm.): Derivation is the formation of a new word or inflectable stem from another word or stem. It typically occurs by the addition of an affix.The derived word is often of a different word class from the original. It may thus take the inflectional affixes of the new word class. |
اشتقاق |
| Derivational adverb (gramm.): An adverb derived by adding a derivational affix to it. |
ظرف اشتقاقي |
| Derivational affix (gramm.): An affix used to derive new words. |
زائدة اشتقاقية |
| Derivational process (gramm.): check derivation. |
اشتقاق |
| Derivational suffix (gramm.): An affix used at the end of the word. |
لاحقة اشتقاقية |
| Descriptive dictionary (comm.): A neutral dictionary that is concerned with only describing the language. |
معجم وصفي |
| Determinant (gramm.): The definite and indefinite articles plus a small set of other similar words (e.g. genitive pronouns) which qualify nouns or noun phrases can be grouped as determiners. |
جزء محدد |
| Deverbal (gramm.): An adjective to what was derived from the verb. |
مشتق فعلي |
| Diacope (gramm.): The separation of the elements of a compound word. |
فسخ |
| Diaeresis (phon.): The decomposition of a compound vowel into its two elements. |
فك الادغام |
| Diagramming (gramm.): A synonym of parsing. |
اعراب |
| Dialect (ling.): A dialect is distinguished by its vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation (phonology, including prosody). |
لهجة |
| Dialectology (ling.): A branch of linguistics that studies different dialects and their patterns. |
علم اللهجات |
| Dictionary (comm.): A dictionary is a book or collection of words in a specific language, often listed alphabetically, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, and other information. |
معجم |
| Dictum (comm.): A synonym of proverb. |
مثل |
| Differential linguistics (app.): A branch of linguistics that deals with contrastive analysis the langyage. |
علم اللغة التقابلي |
| Diglossia (socio.): It is a situation where a given language community uses two languages or dialects: the first being the community's present day vernacular and the second being either an ancestral version of the same vernacular from centuries earlier (example: Arabic, Chinese) or a distinct yet closely related present day dialect, e.g. Norwegian with Bokmål and Nynorsk. |
ازدواجية اللغة |
| Dilogy (styl.): A word or phrase that carries two meanings. |
مزدوج المعنى |
| Diminishing metaphor (styl.): A metaphor that is odd. |
استعارة شاذة |
| Diphthong (phon.): If the tongue moves significantly during the production of a vowel phone, the result is a diphthong. A diphthong sounds like a rapid, blended sequence of two separate vowels. |
صائت ثنائي |
| Diptote (gramm.): That has two cases. |
ثنائي التصريف |
| Discourse (ling.): A discourse is an instance of language use whose type can be classified on the basis of such factors as grammatical and lexical choices and their distribution. |
حديث |
| Disjunction (sem.): A conjunction that entails probability or choice. |
عطف اباحي |
| Displacement (semio.): Displacement: Languages can be used to communicate ideas about things that are not in the immediate vicinity either spatially or temporally (the out of sight, out of mind concept). One of the properties that separates Human Language from Animal Language. |
تنحية |
| Distribution (ling.): The group of contents that an linguistic element can be used in. |
توزيع |
| Distransitive verb (gramm.): A verb that needs two objects. |
فعل متعد إلى مفعولين |
| Divergence (socio.): The distant between two accents. |
تفرع |
| Domain (sem.): A synonym for semantic field. |
مجال دلالي |
| Double consonant (phon.): A consonant that occurs between two syllables. |
صامت مضعف |
| Double genitive (gramm.): equals to post-genitive. |
إضافة مزدوجة |
| Double negation (gramm.): The existence of two negations in one structure. |
نفي مزدوج |
| Double object verb (gramm.): check Distransitive verb. |
فعل متعد إلى مفعولين |
| Double vowel (phon.): A vowel that occurs between two syllables. |
صائت مضعف |
| Dysacousis (clin.): A difficulty in hearing. |
عسر سمعي |
| Dysgraphia (clin.): A disorder in writing. |
اضطراب الكتابة |
| Dyslalia (clin.): A difficulty in pronouncing and in speaking. |
لكنة |
| Dyslexia (clin.): A partial disability in reading and comprehension. |
لكنة قرائية |
| Dyslogia (clin.): A disability in comprehension and production of language caused by a lack of mental capabilities. |
حبسة عتهية |
| Dysphemia (clin.): A medical linguistic term of stuttering. |
فأفأة |
| Dysphonia (clin.): The partial disability of the speaker to use his vocal cords for speaking out loudly. |
لكنة صوتية |
