New English Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In English and Arabic. 128 p. The development of the linguistic semantics emerges from the development of the human society itself due to either the necessity or the creativity which grow throughout time using synecdoche, metaphor, metonymy, and connotative meanings. Studies on the semantic development have significant implications which are associated with the philosophy of human development itself. Therefore, this study aims at identifying the semantic development of the word "asubh" and its derivations in the Holy Quraan, the Hadith, and Arab's provers, and poetry. The research problem lies in the fact that the word "Asubh" is expressed by words like "sabah" and "isbah" and several meanings used by the dictionaries, whereby this word has become a wide semantic area used in several contexts, such as "to become, pray, light, clarity, hope, scandal, war, death, and warning". As a result, the relationship between the meanings of "asubh" and these contexts should be clarified since the semantic development cannot be identified without them to remove the apparent contrasts in these denotations or show their rhetorical aspect as well as demonstrate the way of generating meanings of the word "asubh" from each other.
