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Tourists dressed as maiko on a rickshaw in Kyoto, Japan. A pulled rickshaw (from Japanese jinrikisha (人力車) 'person/human-powered vehicle') is a mode of human-powered transport by which a runner draws a two-wheeled cart which seats one or two people.
The word arrived in English from India in the 2nd half of the 18th century meaning hookah. [32] The Indian word was from Persian, and the Persian was from Arabic, but the Arabic source-word did not mean hookah, although the word re-entered Arabic later on meaning hookah. [33] hummus (food recipe) حمّص himmas, [ħumːmsˤ] (listen ...
The Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo sought to publish a historical dictionary of Arabic in the vein of the Oxford English Dictionary, tracing the changes of meanings and uses of Arabic words over time. [91] A first volume of Al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr was published in 1956 under the leadership of Taha Hussein. [92]
The ancient Greeks had the word nitron with the meaning of naturally occurring sodium carbonate and similar salts. The medieval Arabs had this spelled نطرون natrūn [natˤruːn] (listen ⓘ) with the same meaning. Today's European word natron, meaning hydrated sodium carbonate, is descended from the Arabic. [6]
The Persian word shatranj ultimately derives from Sanskrit (Sanskrit: चतुरङ्ग; caturaṅga) (catuḥ: "four"; anga: "arm"), referring to the game of the same name: Chaturanga. In Middle Persian the word appears as chatrang , with the 'u' lost due to syncope and the 'a' lost to apocope , such as in the title of the text Mâdayân ...
Tarneeb (Arabic: طرنيب, romanized: ṭarnīb, lit. 'trump'), also spelled tarnibe and tarnib, and called hakam (حكم ḥakam) in the Arabian Peninsula, is a plain trick-taking card game played in various Middle Eastern countries, most notably in the countries of the Levant, and Tanzania.
Arabic WordNet [1] is a WordNet for Arabic language, ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, a type of kit, or variation on a character class, called the sha'ir was created for the Al-Qadim campaign setting.In the game, however, sha'ir have actual magical powers, and can communicate with genies.