Category:Arabic terms by usage

Arabic terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Arabic archaic terms: Arabic terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Arabic autological terms: Arabic terms that possess the property they themselves describe.
• Category:Arabic childish terms: Arabic terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
• Category:Arabic colloquialisms: Arabic terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Arabic dated terms: Arabic terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
• Category:Arabic derogatory terms: Arabic terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Arabic dialectal terms: Arabic terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Arabic endearing terms: Arabic terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
• Category:Arabic familiar terms: Arabic terms whose use is typically to contexts of friendly intimacy.
• Category:Arabic formal terms: Arabic terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:Arabic hapax legomena: Arabic terms that are attested only once in the entire corpus.
• Category:Arabic higher register terms: Arabic terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Arabic historical terms: Arabic terms that refer to obsolete things or concepts.
• Category:Arabic humorous terms: Arabic terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
• Category:Arabic informal terms: Arabic terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Arabic nonstandard terms: Arabic terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Arabic obsolete terms: Arabic terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Arabic offensive terms: Arabic terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Arabic oxymorons: Arabic terms that are juxtapositions of opposing ideas.
• Category:Arabic placeholder terms: Arabic terms used to refer to items for which one does not know or cannot recall the name, or is unable to or does not care to specify precisely.
• Category:Arabic poetic terms: Arabic terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Arabic proscribed terms: Arabic terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
• Category:Arabic puristic terms: Arabic terms adopted for linguistic purism.
• Category:Arabic rare terms: Arabic terms that are rare in general use, for whatever reason.
• Category:Arabic rustic terms: Arabic terms whose use is typically restricted rural speech.
• Category:Arabic short forms: Arabic terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
• Category:Arabic slang: Arabic colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Arabic terms with archaic senses: Arabic terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Arabic terms with historical senses: Arabic terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Arabic terms with obsolete senses: Arabic terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Arabic terms with rare senses: Arabic rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
• Category:Arabic terms with uncertain meaning: Arabic terms whose meaning is unknown or disputed.
• Category:Arabic terms with uncommon senses: Arabic uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
• Category:Arabic trademarks: Arabic terms that identify legal entities, their products and services, by means of legal protection — to some extent, in a number of jurisdictions — against unauthorized use of the terms.
• Category:Arabic uncommon terms: Arabic uncommonly used terms.
• Category:Arabic vulgarities: Arabic terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.