The position of the terminological definition within the structure of the dictionary text. Definition of verbal cognates with conventional meanings.

Abstract

The present paper deals with the importance of the "terminological definition' and its rank among the lexical article structure within the general dictionaries and the school dictionaries with regard to the semantic relations produced by this definition. In fact, the lexical entries may contain a set of polysemous words that have "terminological meaning", in addition to the other linguistic meanings defined by the context.

The present paper explores some examples quoted from general Arabic dictionaries, such as « al-Wassit », « al-Wajiz » and « al-Mounjid fi al-Lugha al-Arabiyya al-Mouassira », in addition to two school dictionaries : « al-Majani » and « al­Moumtaz » and the French dictionary « Le Grand Robert >>, which we have exploited as a reference to define the polysemous words that bear terminological meaning.