The Names of Clothes Among The Arabs Until The End of The Fourth Century AH, A Linguistic Study

This research aims to reveal the most prominent developments as well as phonetic and morphological changes that occurred in the names of clothes when Arabizing them, and to clear the Arabs’ approaches in Arabizing these names. It also clarifies the morphological provisions related to them, such as appending their structures to the structures of the Arabic language, deriving from them, and subjecting them to the plurals of the Arabic language (taksir plural). The descriptive-analytical approach was used in the study to examine and clarify it. The study concluded that some names of non-Arabic clothes were subject to several phonetic linguistic phenomena when Arabized in order to facilitate pronunciation and achieve phonetic harmony, and the most prominent of these phenomena are: the phenomenon of substitution, diphthong, omission, addition, and inversion.  Arabs also took a specific approach in their Arabization of these names, and were represented by changing the sounds that the Arabic language does not have to sounds that are close to them in terms of place of articulation or certain other qualities related to these sounds, and they dealt with non-Arabic names as they dealt with the original Arabic words, so they derived from them different forms such as verbs, gerunds, and some other derivatives, and they added many of them to their structures.