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20 unusual facts about Arabic language


Abu 'Ubaida

He was one of the most learned and authoritative scholars of his time in all matters pertaining to the Arabic language, antiquities and stories, and is constantly cited by later authors and compilers.

Al Asimah

Al Asimah means "the capital" in Arabic.

Al-Mustaqbal

Al-Mustaqbal means the future in Arabic

Albulaan

The name derives from the Arabic term, al-bulacān (ألبولعان) meaning "the two swallowers".

Beyond Fitna

The film was produced by "NGO Islam and Christianity" in response to Fitna (the title being an Arabic term that means 'disagreement and division among people') by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, which made the case that Islamic texts promote violence and intolerance.

Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi

The subjects taught at this school consisted of, in alphabetic order, Arabic language, Arithmetic, Cookery, Geography, History, Law, Music, Persian literature, and Religion, to name but some.

The word Ma'ayeb (معايب), or Oyoub (عیوب), is the plural of the Persian (in fact Arabic) word Eyb (عیب), which refers to a shortcoming or a failing, rather than a vice per se.

Celebrity Duets Arab World

Celebrity Duets Arab World (Arabic: Celebrity Duets ديو المشاهير) is a reality television show based on the American reality show Celebrity Duets.

Father of modern surgery

Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (born in Córdoba, Spain; 936-1013), also called Abulcasis, wrote Al-Tasrif (The Method of Medicine), a 30-part medical encyclopedia in Arabic.

George Francis Lyon

Wearing Arab/Muslim dress and learning fluent Arabic he managed to blend in with the inhabitants of North Africa; he was tattooed by the Inuit in the Arctic, using needle and sooty thread, and ate raw caribou and seal meat with them.

Hanna Helou

Hanna Helou (Arabic: حنا الحلو, full name: Youhanna El Helou) was an erudite and influential Maronite priest from southern Lebanon.

Interpol notice

Notices can be issued in any of the four official languages of Interpol: English, French, Spanish, and Arabic.

Jennet

The American Heritage Dictionarys etymology is similar, citing the Middle English genet, from Old French; from the Catalan ginet, of Arabic and, ultimately, of Berber origin.

Mallemin

The mallemin (also maalemine, muallemin etc.; derived from a plural of the Arabic word mu`allim, meaning approximately "sir" or "teacher") were a professional caste of blacksmiths and metalworkers within Hassaniya Arab society, Mauritania, southern Morocco and Western Sahara and .

Politics of the Palestinian National Authority

The Palestinian Legislative Council (Majlis al-Tashri'i in Arabic) is the legislature of the Palestinian Authority.

President of the Palestinian National Authority

The Arabic term Ra'ees or Ra'is (رئيس) can be translated to English as either "President" or "Chairman".

Qassam

Qassam is an acronym for the Arabic Quwat al-islamiya al-mujahida (Islamic combatant force), meaning the armed branch of an Islamic movement.

The Giaour

"Giaour" (Turkish: Gâvur) is the Turkish word for infidel or non-believer, and is similar to the Arabic word "kafir".

Tureis

The name Tureis or Turais was derived from the Arabic title al-turais, which means "The Possession".

Yahud

Yahud is a classical Arabic term which comes from a term used 11 times in the Quran to refer to descendants of Hud's community who had strayed into the worship Uzayir (Anosh Uthra) as the son of Allah.


Abdalla Eltayeb

Abdalla Eltayeb (2 June 1921 -19 June 2003) was a prominent Sudanese scholar of the Arabic language.

Al-Tikriti

The Arabic nisba al-Tikriti refers to people who were either born in or whose family were from the Iraqi town of Tikrit.

Alpha Columbae

It has the traditional name of Phact, which is derived from the Arabic term for "ring dove".

Amina Alaoui

Amina went to school at Lycée Descartes and studied philology and Spanish and Arabic linguistics at the University of Madrid and the University of Granada.

Asrary school riyadh

Asrary School, Riyadh is a school that teaches English, Arabic, and French from KG1 till 12th grade.

Association Sportive d'Hammamet H.C.

Association Sportive d'Hammamet H.C (Arabic: الجمعية الرياضية بالحمامات ) is a Tunisian handball team based in Hammamet, that plays in Tunisian Professional Handball League.

Bahibbik Wahashteeny

Bahibbik Wahashteeny (I Love You, I Miss You) is the seventeenth full-length Arabic studio album from Egyptian pop singer Angham, launched in Egypt on July 25, 2005 (see 2005 in music) by Rotana Production Company.

Barthélemy d'Herbelot

It is based on the immense Arabic bibliography (the Kashf al-Zunun) of Hadji Khalfa (Katip Çelebi), of which indeed it is largely an abridged translation, but it also contains the substance of a vast number of other Arabic and Turkish compilations and manuscripts.

Bayle St. John

During a residence of two years in Egypt he wrote The Libyan Desert (1849), and while in Egypt he learnt Arabic and visited the oasis of Siwa.

Bayoumi Andil

Andil also published many articles and books, in which he proposed that Modern Masri Egyptian language is nothing but the fourth stage of the languages of the Egyptians, and should not truly be considered a variety of Arabic, but rather a linguistic evolution of the Coptic language and the Ancient Egyptian language.

Beit Jala Lions

The Beit Jala Lions (Arabic:-لايونز بيت جالا) is a rugby union club situated in the town of Beit Jala near Bethlehem in the West Bank.

China Today

It is published in Chinese language, English, Spanish, French, Arabic, German and Turkish, and is intended to promote a positive view of the People's Republic of China and its government to people outside of China.

Christian Lassen

On his return to Bonn he studied Arabic, and took the degree of Ph.D., his dissertation discussing the Arabic notices of the geography of the Punjab (Commentario geographica historica de Pentapotamia Indica, Bonn, 1827).

Denshawai Incident

On 13 June 1906 five officers of the occupying British army, with their interpreter and a police official, visited Denshawai (AR: دنشواي) to go pigeon shooting.

Denys Johnson-Davies

Denys Johnson-Davies (Arabic: دنيس جونسون ديڤيز) is an eminent Arabic-to-English literary translator who has translated, inter alia, several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish and Syrian author Zakaria Tamer.

Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic

The Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic is an Arabic-English dictionary compiled by Hans Wehr and edited by J Milton Cowan.

Étienne Marc Quatremère

His manuscript material for Syriac was utilized in Robert Payne Smith's Thesaurus; of the slips he collected for a projected Arabic, Persian and Turkish lexicon some account is given in the preface to Dozy, Supplément aux dictionaires arabes.

Ferhad Shakely

In 1992, he published Kurdish nationalism in Mam and Zin of Ahmad Khani, a literary history that was translated into Swedish, Turkish and Arabic.

Hekmeh FC

Al-Hikma in classical Arabic, El-Hekmeh in Lebanese dialect stands for "wisdom", thus also the French alternative name of the club, Sagesse (meaning wisdom in French).

History of Joseph the Carpenter

Two versions survive, one in Coptic, the other in Arabic, with the Coptic version likely being the original.

Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies

Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies (Arabic: كلية ابن سينا الأهلية للعلوم الطبية) is a private medical university in the Al mahjar road Ghulail area of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

James A. Toronto

James Albert Toronto (born 1951) is a professor of Arabic language and Islamic religion at Brigham Young University (BYU).

Joseph Schacht

Joseph Franz Schacht, born in Ratibor, 15 March 1902, died in Englewood, 1 August 1969, was a British-German professor of Arabic and Islam at Columbia University in New York.

Kingdom of Valencia

Shortly after, in 1233, Borriana and Peniscola were also taken from the بلنسية Balansiyya (Valencia in the Arabic language) taifa.

Kitab al-Umm

The Kitāb al-Umm (Arabic: كـتـاب الأم) is a book of law that is used as an authoritative guide by the Shafi'i school of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) within the Sunni branch of Islam.

Marathon Media Group

The shows are dubbed into French (1st official), Japanese (2nd official), English, Thai, German, Dutch, Malay, Arabic, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages dubbed and shown around the world.

Miniara

Miniara (Arabic: منياره) (also transliterated Minyara) is a village in the District of Akkar, North Lebanon, 9 kilometers east of the Mediterranean Sea, and 3 kilometers south of Halba.

Minorities in Iraq

Although they are Muslims and Arabic-speakers, Afro-Iraqis also retain some cultural and religious traditions from their ancestral homeland.

Miswak

The miswak (miswaak, siwak, sewak, السواك) is a teeth cleaning twig made from a twig of the Salvadora persica tree (known as arak in Arabic).

Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen

Sheikh Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Saalih ibn Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen at-Tamimi (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن صالح بن محمد بن سليمان بن عبد الرحمن العثيمين التميمي) (March 9, 1925 – January 10, 2001) was one of the most prominent Sunni Muslim Islamic scholars of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Muniruddin Ahmed

He studied Arabic and Political Science at the University of Panjab (Lahore) and the University of Hamburg (Germany).

Najee Mondalek

"Arabic إبتسم أنت في ديربورن" "translit: Ibtasim Anta fee Dearborn" premiered on June 1993 in Dearborn, Michigan.

Nuha al-Radi

She was educated at private English-speaking schools in Delhi and Simla, except for a brief spell in 1956 when she attended a boarding school in Alexandria to improve her Arabic, but this was interrupted by the Suez Crisis.

Rusiya Al-Yaum

Previously, when ANO TV-Novosti announced to launch Arabic language channel the editor-in-chief's position was taken by Akram Khuzam (Al Jazeera Channel's former Moscow Bureau chief).

SAHAR TV

Sahar TV is the name of two Iranian TV channels that are part of Sahar Universal Network (SUN) which is the foreign broadcasting branch of Islamic Republic Of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) that is responsible for broadcasting the programs in different languages including English, French, Arabic, Urdu, Azeri, Kurdish and many other ones.

Shatranj

During the Golden Age of Arabic, many works on shatranj were written, recording for the first time the analysis of opening games, chess problems, the knight's tour, and many more subjects common in modern chess books.

Sigma Hydrae

It is also known by the proper name Minchir, and appears as Minchir es-schudscha' on Bode's large star atlas, Uranographia, which is derived from the Arabic Minkhir al-Shuja‘, "the Nostril of Hydra", for this star.

Tony Lagouranis

He was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and graduated from high school in 1987 in New York City, going on to study Ancient Greek as part of his degree program at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Arabic at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California.

Wasafiri

Its name derives from a word meaning "travellers" in KiSwahili (etymologically linked with the Arabic word "safari").

Westmeadows, Victoria

The most common foreign languages spoken in Westmeadows are Italian, Turkish, Arabic (including Lebanese), and Greek.

Wydad Casablanca

According to the book, during the frequent meetings which led to the creation of the club, one of the founding members arrived late after watching the latest film of the legendary Egyptian actress and singer Oum Kaltoum, Wydad (in Arabic, "Wydad" means "Love").

Zulkifli Abdhir

According to the FBI, he is 5 feet 6 inches tall and 120 lbs and can speak Malaysian, Tagalog, English, and Arabic.