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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.
Lebanese Arabic (Arabic: عَرَبِيّ لُبْنَانِيّ ʿarabiyy lubnāniyy; autonym: ʿarabe lebnēne [ˈʕaɾabe ləbˈneːne]), or simply Lebanese (Arabic: لُبْنَانِيّ lubnāniyy; autonym: lebnēne [ləbˈneːne]), is a group of accents or a variety of Levantine Arabic, indigenous to and primarily spoken in Lebanon, with some linguistic influences borrowed from other ...
[32] [4] Lebanese literary figure Said Akl led a movement to recognize the "Lebanese language" as a distinct prestigious language instead of MSA. [33] Levantine is a variety of Arabic, a Semitic language. There is no consensus regarding the genealogical position of Arabic within the Semitic languages. [34]
Arabic-language surnames (5 C, 749 P) T. ... Pages in category "Arabic words and phrases" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 331 total.
Its vowel is dropped when the preceding word ends in a vowel. A helping vowel "e" is inserted if the following word begins with a consonant cluster. [7] It assimilates with "Sun letters", basically all consonants that are pronounced with the tip of the tongue. Other letters are called "Moon letters". [7] The letter Jeem (ج) is a special case.
Occupying 20 printed book volumes (in the most frequently cited edition), it is the best known dictionary of the Arabic language, [2] as well as one of the most comprehensive. Ibn Manzur compiled it from other sources to a large degree.
is the conjunctive form "ruin of" (خربة) of the Arabic word for "ruin" (خرب, khirba, kharab ("ruined")) All pages with titles containing Khirbet; All pages with titles containing Khirbat; All pages with titles containing Khurbet; All pages with titles containing Kharab; Ksar, qsar, plural: ksour, qsour Maghrebi Arabic; See "Qasr"
The Lebanese dialect of Levantine Arabic Sign Language is the main sign language of Lebanon, and Lebanon's deaf population is estimated at 12,000. [ 35 ] [ 1 ] Sign languages in the Arab world share some signs, but they are significantly different from each other. [ 78 ]