Definiteness
type: Item
instance of: Arabic rhetorical device
part of: Sentence Construction & Syntactical Stylistics (‘ilm al-ma‘ānī)
title: Definiteness
title: التعريف @ar
Encyclopedia of Arabic Rhetoric ID: DEFINT
Encyclopedia of Arabic Rhetoric page code: 891
BALAGHA Score ID: DEFINT
described at URL: DEFINT: Definiteness
DOI: 10.64393/balagha.Q266
OpenAlex ID: W4415329686
cites work: Durūs al-Balāgha
cites work: First Steps to Understanding Balaghah
cites work: Arabic Rhetoric: The Pragmatics of Deviation from Linguistic Norms
Balagha Corpus ID: A08DefinitenessandIndefiniteness
Encyclopedia of Arabic Rhetoric status: Active
label: التعريف @ar
description: Arabic rhetorical device involving the use of definiteness where indefiniteness is expected