سَلِيقِىٌّ

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سَلِيقِىٌّ [Natural, or untaught, speech;] speech whereof the desinential syntax is not much attended to, but which is chaste and eloquent in respect of what has been heard, though often tripping, or stumbling, in respect of grammar: or the speech which the dweller in the desert utters according to his nature and his proper dialect, though his other speech be nobler and better. And سَلِيقِيَّةٌ [in like manner, the ة being affixed to the epithet سَلِيقِىٌّ to convert it into a subst.,] signifies The dialect in which the speaker thereof proceeds loosely, or freely, according to his nature, without paying much attention to desinential syntax, and without avoiding incorrectness. You say, فُلَانٌ يَتَكَلَّمُ , meaning Such a one speaks according to his nature, not from having learned. And فُلَانٌ يَقْرَأُ Such a one reads, or recites, according to the natural condition in which he has grown up, not as having been taught.

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