ZAMAKHSHARI'S WORK "ASAS AL-BALAGHAH"

Abstract

This study sheds light on the semantic fields in the dictionary of “Asas al-Balaghah” by al-Zamakhshari, by applying the principles of that theory to its first part, and it seeks to highlight a historical linguistic dictionary by explaining the approach of al-Zamakhshari in its composition, and researching the true and metaphorical meanings that are addressed, the extent of their limitations or comprehensiveness, and the extent of The effect of time and place on its quality. Explaining the complementary role between the lexicon and the context in determining the connotations of expressions and diversifying them. The study is concerned with counting the meanings that al-Zamakhshari dealt with in his dictionary, analyzing them, and classifying them into interconnected fields of meaning, including the tangible fields that share their connotations for all that can be perceived by the senses, whether the senses are live or inanimate, and the study is concerned with research in the field of the human body, and what It falls under it from subfields, where these fields share semantic relationships that the study worked on detailing, and the study sheds light on lexical generation techniques, and semantic generation mechanisms at Zamakhshari, and shows the role of metaphor in generating new semantics.