THE WORD OF ‘BASAR’ IN QURAN AND ITS SYNONYM: COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN QURAN CORPUS AND Al-MU’JAM Al-MUFAHRAS LI ALFAZ AL-QURAN

Mohamed Akhiruddin Ibrahim¹*, Hishomudin Ahmad², Robiatul Adawiyah Mohd¹, Muhammad Widus Sempo1 and Nur Farhana Baharuddin³

¹Dr., Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Quranic and Sunnah Studies, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, MALAYSIA.
akhiruddin@usim.edu.my
²Dr., Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Major Languages, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, MALAYSIA. 
³Student, Faculty of Quranic and Sunnah Studies, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, MALAYSIA.
*Corresponding author

Abstract

Synonym is a linguistic term means similar meaning for the particular word. In different periods of time, there were many studies and discussions of synonyms on words in the text of Quran especially in terms of its accurate meaning. Some scholars argue the meaning of the word and its synonyms based on their views and arguments that led to sources diversity. Therefore, the objective of this study is to identify the meaning of the word Basar in Quran and discuss the synonyms of this word based on a comparison between Quran Corpus and Mu’jam Mufahras Li Alfaz Al-Quran, which are the Quran dictionaries. The result shows that Ra’a, Syahida and Nazara are the synonyms of Basar, which means vision and all of them can be found in both dictionaries. In addition, the finding also shows that the frequencies of all words are similar except for the word Ra’a. The further discussions are expected to explain the comparison of the word Basar and its synonyms in Quran based on other Quran linguistic sources.

Keywords: Basar, Quran, Synonym, Comparative