Category:Arabic figures of speech

Arabic terms whose interpretation is not strictly literal, but are used in figurative ways or for special effect.

• Category:Arabic dysphemisms: Arabic dysphemisms (offensive, vulgar or otherwise negative terms used in place of a neutral alternative).
• Category:Arabic euphemisms: Arabic terms that indirectly refer to something unpleasant or controversial.
• Category:Arabic hyperboles: Arabic terms used as exaggerations for emphasis, rather than being taken literally.
• Category:Arabic idioms: Arabic phrases understood by subjective, as opposed to literal meanings.
• Category:Arabic proverbs: Arabic phrases popularly known as representations of common sense.
• Category:Arabic sarcastic terms: Arabic terms that are used sarcastically.
• Category:Arabic similes: Arabic figures of speech in which one thing is compared to another.
• Category:Arabic synecdoches: Arabic figures of speech in which a term for a part of something is used to refer to the whole pars pro toto, or vice versa totum pro parte.