What does Ishtiqaq mean?

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Discover the meaning of the term Ishtiqaq (اشتقاق) in Islamic vocabulary.

Definition Ishtiqaq

Ishtiqaq according to Kitab at-Ta'rifat (Al-Jurjani)

Extracting a wording from another, on condition of their suiting in meaning and structure, and differing in form.

Ishtiqaq according to Dustur al-'Ulama (Al-Ahmadnagari)

Among morphology scholars: cutting a branch from a root returning in its derivatives, with the letters’ order and the meaning’s addition; the definition of the small ichtqaq.

Ishtiqaq according to Mu'jam al-Mustalahat al-Fiqhiyya

It is in the tongue: cutting. As a term, by its analogy to the active participle: returning a wording to another, though figurative, for a fitness between them in meaning, the second’s sense being in the first, and in the original letters: being there of one order, as an-natiq of noutq. Returning a wording to another for fitness of meaning and original letters; regular as the active participle, or specific as al-qaroura.

Ishtiqaq according to Maqalid al-'Ulum (As-Suyuti)

Returning a wording to another for its concord in original letters and fitness in meaning.

Ishtiqaq according to At-Tawqif (Al-Munawi)

Extracting a wording from another, on condition of fitness in meaning and structure, and difference in form.

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