Idiomatic Uses of Prepositions in Arabic with Special Reference to Translating the Holy Quran

Abstract

In dealing with religious texts, a translator may come across many problems: grammatical, structural, lexical or cultural. for the lexical level, the translator would tackle the problem of idioms, which is sadly unexpressed area of linguistics in Arabic. This conclusion is based on the assumption that there are no sufficient sources in this respect in Arabic.Yet, there are many expressions when tested against the rules of distinguishing idioms (whether syntactic or semantic) prove that we have such constructions as far as Arabic is concerned.