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Ear training (phon.): A special training that meant to increase the capability of distinguishing different kinds of spoken sounds.

تدريب سمعي

Echoism (sem.): The formation of words by imitating sounds.

محاكاة الصوت

Echolalia (clin.): A verbal defect where a person repeats words and phrases heard from the others.

مصادات

Electric method (ling.): A method in linguistics based on collecting opinions and selecting the best one.

منهج انتقائي

Eclipsis (phon. /graph.):

حذف الصامت

Ecology of language (ling.): The study of the relation between a specific language and its environment.

دراسة بيئة اللغة

Editorial pronoun (gramm.): The plural pronoun used by an author instead of using I. 

ضمير المؤلف

Educational linguistics (ling.): A branch of linguistics that deals with education.

علم اللغة التربوي

Egressive (phon.): Egressive sounds are those in which the air stream is created by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.

خارجي

Ejective (phon.): ejective consonants are voiceless consonants that are pronounced with simultaneous closure of the glottis. In the phonology of a particular language.

قذفي

Elative (gramm.): In Semitic linguistics, the elative is a stage of gradation in Arabic that can be used both for a superlative and comparative.

تفضيلي

Elative case (gramm.): Elatives are a locative case with the basic meaning "out of".

حالة المفعول منه

Electromyography (phon.): Electromyography (EMG) is a technique for evaluating and recording the activation signal of muscles. EMG is performed using an instrument called an electromyograph, to produce a record called an Electromyogram.

رسم سمعي كهربائي

Electromyogram (phon.): check entry above.

صورة عضلية كهربائية

Elevation (sem.): The act of emphasizing nouns and words.

ارتقاء

Elicitation (ling.): To check something in a language from a native speaker.

استنطاق

Elision (phon.): Elision is the omission of one or more sounds in a word or phrase, producing a result that is easier for the speaker to pronounce. Sometimes, sounds may be elided for euphonic effect.

اسقاط

Ellipsis (gramm.): A technical term for leaving out words in sentences. For example, in Brian ate the ice-cream and Judy the peaches, there is ellipsis, since the word ate is omitted after Judy.

حذف

Elocution (comm.): The art of practicing on giving a speech.

تدريب القائي

Embedding (gramm.): The insertion of a sentence inside a main sentence.

تضمين

Emotive (sem.): sentimental.

انفعالي

Emphasis (gramm.): The act of exaggeration on a word to give the intended meaning.

توكيد

Emphasis (phon.): A synonym for the word stress.

نبر

Emphatics (phon.): In Semitic languages, a group of sounds that have deep pronunciation. 

مفخمات

End rhyme (poet.): The same sound shared by the stanzas at the end.

قافية ختامية

Ending (gramm.): Suffix.

لاحقة

Endophasia (comm.): internal speech, self talking.

نطق غير مسموع

Endophoric reference (gramm.): A term that refers to anaphoric reference.

تلميح

Entailment (sem.): Entailment is the relationship between two sentences where the truth of one (A) requires the truth of the other (B).

استلزام

Entry (comm.): The lexical entry in a dictionary.

مدخل

Epicene (gramm.): Epicene is an adjective (sometimes substantive) for loss of gender distinction, often specific loss of masculinity.

مشترك الجنس

Epigraphic language (comm.): An old and extinct language known among researchers.

لغة تفشية

Epiphonema (styl.): To explain a sentence with another sentence.

تذييل

epiphora (styl.):  the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.  

تكرار ختامي

Eponym (comm.): A name taken from a famous name.

مسمى علمي

Equational verb (gramm.): check copula.

فعل رابط

Equivocation (comm.): When two or more words share the same meaning and spelling.

التباس

Equivoque (styl.): Equivocation is classified as both a formal and informal fallacy. It is the misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense (by glossing over which meaning is intended at a particular time).

تورية

Ergative case (gramm.): The ergative case is the grammatical case that identifies the subject of a transitive verb in ergative-absolutive languages.

حالة التوافق

Essive case (gramm.): The essive or similaris case carries the meaning of a temporary state of being, often equivalent to the English "as a...".

In the Finnish language, this case is marked by adding "-na/-nä" to the stem of the noun.

حالة الحال

Etymology (ling.): Is the study of the history of words and how their form and meaning have changed over time.

علم التأثيل

Euphony (comm.): is the claim or study of inherent pleasantness or beauty (euphony) or unpleasantness (cacophony) of the sound of certain linguistic utterances. Poetry is considered euphonic, as is well-crafted literary prose.

تناغم

Even accent (phon.): An accent in which all parts of stress are leveled.

نبر تساوي

Exclamation theory (comm.): is a theory of language formulated by the pre-Socratic philosopher Democritus, ca. 460 BC to ca. 370 BC, who argued that human speech derives from a variety of sounds and outcries of an emotional nature.

نظرية التعجب

Exegesis (comm.): Exegesis is a critical explanation or interpretation of a text.

تفسير

Exophora (gramm.): In linguistics, exophora is reference to something extralinguistic, i.e. not in the same text, and contrasts with endophora.

ايماء

Expansion (gramm.): to add new elements linguistic units to the sentence.

توسع الجملة

Expression (ling.): a string of linguistic units that is used in a context.

تعبير

Extension (sem.): to widen the words meaning to include other meanings.

تعميم

Extension (sem.): the number of objects that a word refers to in the outside world.

مدلول نطاقي

Extension (gramm.): A synonym for affixation.

زيادة

External meaning (sem.): equals to the lexical meaning.

معنى خارجي

External plural (gramm.): check sound plural.

جمع السلامة

Externalization (ling.): Externalization means to put something outside of its original borders, especially to put a human function outside of the human body.

تجسيد

Extinct language (comm.): An extinct language is a language which no longer has any speakers. 

لغة منقرضة (ميتة)