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Mafraq (Arabic: محافظة المفرق Muhāfaẓat al-Mafraq, local dialects Mafrag or Mafra' ) is one of the governorates of Jordan, located to the north-east of Amman, capital of Jordan. It has a population of 637,000 (2021 estimate) [2] [3] making up 5.8% of Jordan's population. Its capital is Mafraq, which is known for its military bases.
Mafraq (Arabic: المفرق Al-Mafraq, local dialects: Mafrag or Mafra; lit. ' crossroads ') is the capital city of Mafraq Governorate in Jordan, located 80 km to the north of the national capital, Amman. It is located at a crossroads, with a road north going to Syria and another road to the east going to Iraq. It had 56,340 inhabitants in 2004.
Maghrebi letters appeared in the first known Arabic alphabet to have been printed, in a 1505 book of the Spanish lexicographer Pedro de Alcalá. [21] In Iberia, the Arabic script was used to write Romance languages such as Mozarabic, Portuguese, Spanish or Ladino. [22] This writing system was referred to as Aljamiado, from ʿajamiyah ...
The implicit directional marks are non-printing characters used in the computerized typesetting of bi-directional text containing mixed left-to-right scripts (such as Latin and Cyrillic) and right-to-left scripts (such as Persian, Arabic, Syriac and Hebrew).
Umm al-Surab (also Umm es-Surab, Umm al-Sarab; Arabic: أم السرب) is a residential area located in the Badiah Gharbiyah, Mafraq Governorate, Jordan. The region belongs to the northwestern Badia district, which includes 15 districts. Its population is estimated at 4,130 people, according to the 2015 census. [1]
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un, [a] [a 1] also known as Istirja, [b] is an Arabic phrase from 156th verse of the second chapter of the Quran, and meaning "Indeed, we belong to Allah, and indeed, to Him we return."
Only the Arabic question mark ؟ and the Arabic comma ، are used in regular Arabic script typing and the comma is often substituted for the Latin script comma , which is also used as the decimal separator when the Eastern Arabic numerals are used (e.g. 100.6 compared to ١٠٠,٦ ).
In the 1920s, Mafraq was used as a base for aircraft and armored cars of the RAF. By 1931, Mafraq, which is situated on a large, flat desert expand 8 km (5.0 mi) from the Syrian border, was used as the major staging and refueling post for international flights and for the transfer of air supplies, personnel, freight and mail.