Phonetic repetition in the Holy Quran and its impact on meaning

Abstract

The study of the origin of language and the significance of its sounds has occupied a wide area of linguistic activity over successive eras, starting from the Indians and Greeks and reaching the Arab scholars. This is due to the important role that the linguistic sound plays in guiding meaning, as it is heavily relied upon in conveying and delivering meanings. The meaning that is based on sound is defined as phonetic meaning, which is considered one of the most important linguistic phenomena that involve both the phonetic and semantic levels.

This study has been called "Phono-semantic" in the last decades of the twentieth century, a science that derives its material from the examination of the relationship between sound and meaning in various languages, and this phenomenon is more evident and clearer in the Arabic language. But is there really a relationship between sounds and their meanings in the Arabic language? And to what extent does this relationship reach? And what are its manifestations? And how did our scholars view it? Or what is the extent of utilizing this relationship in the interpretation of the Holy Quran? All these questions I will try to answer in this intervention.