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ʕĪsà ʕUbayd, Muqaddima (1921)

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III-§1.a

وعلى هذا الاعتبار تكون كلّ حقيقة جديرة بأنْ تعرض وتُصوَّر وتُقال ۰

wa-ʕalà hāḏā ’l-iʕtibār takūn^u kull^u ḥaqīqaẗⁱⁿ ǧadīraẗ^an bi-ʔan tuʕraḍ^a wa-tuṣawwar^a wa-tuqāl^a.

Accordingly, every truth is worth being displayed, described and spoken out.

AR: ḥaqīqaẗ
EN: …

5 – كنّا نودّ أنْ نخصّص فصلاً مثل هذه الفصول لدرس لغة التأثّر والانفعال التي أخذ كتاب الناشئة الجديدة يستخدمونها في كتابتهم ،

5 – kunnā nawadd^u ʔan nuḫaṣṣiṣ^a faṣl^an miṯl^a hāḏihī ’l-fuṣūl li-dars luġaẗ al-taʔaṯṯur wa’l-infiʕāl allatī ʔaḫaḏa kuttāb al-nāšiʔaẗ al-ǧadīdaẗ yastaḫdimūna-hā fī kitābati-him,

5 | We would have liked to dedicate one chapter like this to the study of the language of affects and emotions that the writers of the emerging new generation have begun to employ in their writings,

AR: faṣl, dars, taʔaṯṯur (taʔṯīr), infiʕāl, kuttāb (kātib), nāšiʔaẗ (našʔaẗ, nušūʔ), ǧadīd, kitābaẗ
EN: 5…

تلك اللغة الحيّة المرنة الشغوفة باختيار الكلمات الفنّية وابتكار العبارات الجديدة التي تؤدّي المعنى بقوّة ودقّة ،

tilka ’l-luġaẗ al-ḥayawiyyaẗ al-marinaẗ al-šaġūfaẗ bi-’ḫtiyār al-kalimāt al-fanniyyaẗ wa-’btikār al-ʕibārāt al-ǧadīdaẗ allatī tuʔaddī al-maʕnà bi-quwwaẗ wa-diqqaẗ,

that vivid flexible language that is eager to make sophisticated use of the vocabulary (?)¹ and invent new expressions that render the intended meaning powerfully and exactly/precisely.

1. I am not sure whether this is what the author meant. Literally, he says: ‘the choice of artistic (or: technical?) words’ – iḫtiyār al-kalimāt al-fanniyyaẗ.

AR: luġaẗ, ḥayawī (ḥayawiyyaẗ, ḥayāẗ), marin (murūnaẗ), fannī (fann), ibtikār, ǧadīd, maʕnà, quwwaẗ, diqqaẗ
EN: vivid, flexible, sophisticated, powerfully, exactly, precisely

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