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The term MENAT explicitly includes Turkey, which is usually excluded from some MENA definitions, even though Turkey is almost always considered part of the Middle East proper. Ultimately, MENA can be considered as a grouping scheme that brings together most of the Arab League and variously includes their neighbors, like Iran , Turkey, Israel ...
nou-nou/now now – contrary to the original meaning of the English word "now", it means "in due time", and therefore can mean anything from "in the next five minutes" to "in the next five years". net-nou – lit. "just now." Can refer to an event that happened a while ago, maybe within 12hrs ("I saw him just now").
A menat is a type of artefact associated with the Egyptian goddess Hathor, sometimes used as an alternative name for the goddess herself. Menat may also refer to: MENAT, the region comprising the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey; Menat, Puy-de-Dôme, a village and commune in France; Menat Abbey, a monastery in Menat, Puy-de-Dôme
Naartjie(from Afrikaans meaning tangerine or mandarin) meerkat (literally "lake cat") padloper (literally "path walker") platanna (from Dutch "plathander", meaning "flat handed creature") rinkhals (literally "ring throat"): also known as the ring-necked spitting cobra; springbok (literally "jumping buck"): The National Animal of South Africa
The word madrasah derives from the triconsonantal Semitic root د-ر-س D-R-S 'to learn, study', using the wazn (morphological form or template) مفعل(ة); mafʻal(ah), meaning "a place where something is done". Thus, madrasah literally means "a place where learning and studying take place" or "place of study".
impi – from Zulu language meaning "war, battle or a regiment" indaba – from Xhosa or Zulu languages – "stories" or "news" typically conflated with "meeting" (often used in South African English) japa – from Yoruba, "to flee" jazz – possibly from Central African languages From the word jizzi”.
In Persian and Kurdish as well as Urdu, the word 'awrat (Persian: عورت) derived from the Arabic 'awrah, has been used widely to mean "woman". Consulting Mohammad Moin's dictionary of Persian, 'awrah has two meanings: Nakedness; Young woman [17] The meaning in other derivatives ranges from "blind in one eye" to "false or artificial", among ...
The Malqata Menat, late Eighteenth Dynasty An elaborate menat necklace depicted in a relief at the Temple of Hathor at Dendera In ancient Egyptian religion , a menat ( Ancient Egyptian : mnj.t (𓏠𓈖𓇋𓏏𓋧) , Arabic : منات ) was a necklace closely associated with the goddess Hathor .