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One of the most obscure and most frequently commented on texts in Arabic grammatical tradition is the opening formulation in its earliest extant book, Sībawayhi’s , concerning the tripartite division of parts of speech. For the third part of speech, the particle, around which the present article revolves, Sībawayhi uses a complex term, whose head is , a term which is commonly used by itself by later grammarians for this part of speech. This article revisits the question of whether the term by itself denotes “particle” in , alongside the denotation “word”. Following Weiss’ article, published more than a hundred years ago, it will be argued that does not denote “particle” in , though occurrences thereof may refer to particles, and that scholars who ascribe the later denotation “particle” to in do so due to an anachronistic bias.

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