Arabic-L:LING:kathalika ( كذلك)

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Date: 04 Jul 2009
From:Kais Dukes <kais.dukes at jqurantree.org>
Subject:kathalika (كذلك)

Hello Mai (and the Arabic L list),

I asked a good friend of mine (a PhD student in Morroco), here was her  
response on the subject, in terms of "classical traditional Arabic  
morphology":

"I am writing to tell you about the word "Ka-thalika"; I discussed the  
subject with a lady who did Islamic Studies this morning. I think it's  
a compound word conatining 7arf attashbih (ka ) and ism isharah (tha)  
and lam albu3d and ka lilmoukhatab (li-ka). It's hard for me to  
confirm that especially when dealing with Quran, but I think that the  
word kathalika is mainly compound and should be divided - if you like  
it- this way:

Ka-: 7arf tashbih
-tha-: 7arf ishara
-li-: lilbou3d
-ka:  lilmoukhatab


P.S:
I am sure that you must have thought of this but I would like to cite  
that in Quran we can also find words like: kathaliki (surah Al-Imran:  
47), kathalikum (surah Al-Fath: 15); therefore, the last "ka" in  
"kathalika" can become "ki" or "kum" depending on the number of  
mukhatab we have; and when the ending is not static then it's  
something we can add and remove depending on the context... So, my  
opinion is that kathalika is compound, not one word."

Regards,

-- Kais

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