الكتيبة وصفاتها في التراث المعجمي العربي دراسة في الاشتقاق والمعنى

Abstract

This research, which is entitled (The Battalion and its Adjectives in the Arabic Lexicon Heritage: A study in Derivation and Meaning), focuses on a term that has been widely mentioned in the Arabic lexicon book and mainly related to battles and fighting, namely “Battalion”. Thus, the research aims at defining this term and determining its boundaries, roots, meanings, and the most important objectives that have been attached to this term or specialised in it through adding, yet over the time the prescribed or genitive has been neglected and replaced by an adjective and adjunct. The research pays more attention to study the original etymological that has been taken from these objectives with the aim of identifying the reasons behind choosing this objective for Battalion. Accordingly, the research has been divided into a number of sections to address the different issue regarding the Battalion, such as colour, structure, strength, and multitude. It has been found that a Battalion is a name used to describe a group of soldiers entering a war, whereas other names are just objectives in their original use, they have, however, changed to names over time and frequent use. Yet, some of these objectives have specialised as names for certain types of Battalions, whereas, others, have been found, are suitable to be a name for any Battalion characterised by the objective that the name refers to it.