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Macrolinguistics(ling.) : a broad term for prelinguistics, microlinguistics, metalinguistics

علم اللغة الاكبر

Macrosociolinguistics(socio.) : a term used to refer to the general study of sociolinguistics

علم اللغة الاجتماعي الأكبر

Main clause(gramm.) : a clause which have full meaning by itself

عبارة رئيسية

Majority language(socio.) : a language spoken by the majority

لغة الأكثرية

Manner of articulation(phon.) : the way sounds articulation

طريقة النطق

Manner of discourse(socio.) : how two or more interact in a social relation

طريقة الحديث

Margin(phon.) : the blank space bordering the written or printed area on a page

هامش

Marginal sounds(phon.) : sounds rarely occur in languages

أصوات هامشية

Masculine(gramm.) : relating or belonging to the gender of words or forms that refer chiefly to males or to things grammatically classified as male

مذكر

Mathematical linguistics(ling.) : is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective

علم اللغة الرياضي

Matrix sentence(gramm.) : is the embedded sentence

جملة رئيسية

Metronymic(sem.) : relating to mother noun

اسم أمي

Maxim of manner(ling.) : one of the cooperative principles which relates manner of the speaker

مبدأ الكيفية

Maxim of quality(ling.) : one of the cooperative principles which relates quality of the utterance

مبدأ النوعية

Maxim of quantity(ling.) : one of the cooperative principles which relates  to the quantity of the utterance

مبدأ الكمبية

Maxim of relevance(ling.) : one of the cooperative principles which relates to relevance of utterance

مبدأ المناسبة

Meaning(sem.) : what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated

معنى

Meaningful(sem.) : having meaning, function, or purpose

مفيد

Meaningless(sem.) : having no meaning or significance

غير مفيد

Mechanistic linguistics(ling.) : the study of the language  that concentrates on utterances as a result of speaker behavior

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Medieval linguistics(ling.) : the study of linguistics in medieval era

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Medium(comm.) : means of transmission

وسط

Mentalistic linguistics(ling.) : it concentrates on the relationship between language and mind

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Message(ling.) : a usually short communication transmitted by words

رسالة

Metalanguage(ling.) : a language or vocabulary used to describe or analyze language

لغة واصفة

Metalinguistics(ling.) : the study of the interrelationship between language and other cultural behavior

علم اللغة الماورائي

Metanalysis(ling.) : a reanalysis of the division between sounds or words resulting in different constituents

تحديد خاطئ

Metaphor(styl.) : a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them

استعارة

Metaphrase(comm.) : a literal translation

ترداد

Metarule(gramm.) : a rule that describes how other rules should be used

قاعدة عليا

Microsociolinguistics(socio.) : the in-depth study of certain topics in sociolinguistic

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Minimal-distance principle(MDP)(gramm./psyho.) : the returning of complement to a phrase

مبدأ المسافة الدنيا

Minimal set(phon.) : a set of three words or more which has similarity in its phonetic components

متقابلات دنيا

Mirror writing(graph.) : backward writing that resembles a mirror image of ordinary script

كتابة معكومسة

Mixed metaphor(styl.) : the use in the same expression of two or more metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when combined

استعارة مركبة

Modality)gramm.) : one of the main components of the in-depth construction of sentences

صيغية

Mode of discourse(comm.) : the medium which discourse occur in

شكل الحدسث

Modern grammar(gramm.) : grammar based on new theories

النحو الحديث

Modern language(comm.) : languages nowadays

لغة حديثة

Modernization(socio.) : the insertion of new words by authorities

تعصير

Modulating language(ling.) : a language which has many modifications to its words

لغة معدلة

Monophone(phon.) : only one sound

صوت مفرد

Monophthong(phon.) : single vowel articulated without change in quality throughout the course of a syllable, as the vowel of English

صائت احادي

Monophthongization(phon.) : the transformation of polypthong to monophthong

إفراد الصائت الثنائي

Monosemy(sem.) : a word which has only one meaning

أحادية الدلالة

Monosyllable(phon.) : word consists of one syllable

كلمة أحادية المقطع

Monosystemic analysis(ling.) : a method which uses on system from the linguistic component

تحليل أحادي النظام

Mood(gramm.) : a set of verb forms or inflections used to indicate the speaker's attitude toward the factuality or likelihood of the action or condition expressed

صيغة(الفعل)

Morph(gramm.) : the smallest segment of morpheme

مورف

Morpheme(gramm.) : a meaningful linguistic unit consisting of a word, such as man, or a word element

مورفيم

Morphology(gramm.) : the study of the structure and form of words in language or a language, including inflection, derivation, and the formation of compounds

علم الصرف(مج)

Morphotactics(gramm.) : the ordering restrictions in place on the ordering of morphemes

ترتيبية مورفيمية

Mosaic rhyme(poet.) : a rhyme with than one word

قافية تزيينية

Muffled voice phenomenon(comm.) : an unscientific term says that some voices are muffled because they reverse their tongue

ظاهرة الصوت المكتوم

Multal number(gramm.) : a number which shows majority

عدد الكثرة

Multidialectal)socio.) : a community which has different dialects

متعدد اللهجات

Multilingual(comm.) : written or expressed in more than two languages

متعدد اللغات

Multilingual dictionary(comm.) : a dictionary that has entries in more that 3 languages

معجم متعدد اللغات

Mutation(phon.) : the change that is caused in a sound by its assimilation to another sound

إيدال