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Note that the most common way of saying e.g. "the largest boy" is أَكْبَر وَلَد ʼakbar walad, with the adjective in the construct state (rather than expected اَلْوَلَدُ ٱلْأَكْبَرُ * al-waladu l-ʼakbaru, with the adjective in its normal position after the noun and agreeing with it in state).
Tunisian Arabic words and phrases (3 P) Pages in category "Arabic words and phrases" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 331 total.
The written Arabic tahīna is pronounced "taheeny" in Levantine Arabic. The word entered English directly from Levantine Arabic around year 1900, although tahini was rarely eaten in English-speaking countries until around 1970. Definition of tahini | Dictionary.com talc طلق talq [tˤalq] (listen ⓘ), mica and talc. Common in medieval Arabic.
The following Arabic sources are used to generate an acceptable amount of data on which frequency statistics are conducted. The first seven volumes of the series البداية والنهاية (The Beginning and The End) [1] of Ibn Kathir, with 2,855 pages, containing 1,096,047 words, containing 4,326,031 letters.
Most Arabic loanwords in Yoruba entered through Hausa. [citation needed] Arabic words made their way into several West African languages as Islam spread across the Sahara. Variants of Arabic words such as كتاب kitāb ("book") have spread to the languages of African groups who had no direct contact with Arab traders. [100]
Arabic is a Semitic language and English is an Indo-European language. The following words have been acquired either directly from Arabic or else indirectly by passing from Arabic into other languages and then into English. Most entered one or more of the Romance languages, before entering English.
Classical Arabic ج /ɟ/ (Modern Standard /d͡ʒ/) varies widely from a dialect to another with , and being the most common: in most of the Arabian peninsula, Algeria, Iraq, Upper Egypt, Sudan, parts of the Levant and Yemen. in most of the Levant and North Africa. in Lower Egypt, parts of Yemen and Oman.
Many Western words entered Arabic through Ottoman Turkish as Turkish was the main language for transmitting Western ideas into the Arab world. There are about 3,000 Turkish borrowings in Syrian Arabic, mostly in administration and government, army and war, crafts and tools, house and household, dress, and food and dishes.