MDL, I understand that a definition without provenance from the Divine or proof/support from the Divine, is likely to fall into error.
Even qaum can be evidently seen being used in different manners, let alone other words like taa'ifa.
I so want to quote an example but I don't want to be...
Here, you could copy and paste this article.
Just take care to change all third person references to the first person. Job done! AND you'll get an A and lots and lots of sympathy!
We could congratulate ourselves for now having an authority on language amongst us on the forum. NOT!
People did their doctoral theses in it and debated great masaa'il e fiqh in it, and suddenly a boy whose testes have barely dropped tells us its only good for poetry!
One way could be to mentally backtrack to your childhood and infer what facets of your behaviour came from what stimulus in your earlier life. Good luck.