تطور دلالات المصطلحات الطبية في المعاجم العربية

Abstract EN

This paper aims at highlighting the semantic development of some Arabic medical terms ; therefore, we have discussed the definition of semantic development, its causes, and its types and manifestations.

as a case study, we have selected two medical terms : the term (إبرة) needle and the term (الختم) honey.

we analyzed and followed their significance through several linguistic dictionaries.

for the analysis, we adopted two approaches are both descriptive and comparative approches.

among the most important dictionaries in which we studied the evolution of these terms significations are the dictionary “Kitab al-Ayn" by Khalil Bin Ahmed al-Farahidi (170 e), and the "Moadjam Maqayisse Alogha" by Ahmed Ibn Faris (395 e).

the following are among the several results achieved in this study.

while the semantic development of words enriches the language with new words for new concepts, it has negative aspects that lie in the extinction and death of some ancient indications that the word carried.