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  2. List of French words of Arabic origin - Wikipedia

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    caïd (chief of a mob; as a nickname, can be translated as "tiger") قائد. calfeutrer (to draught-proof) calibre (standard for calibration, calibre, see also Caliper) قالب. calife ( caliph) خليفة. camaïeu ( camaieu) camphre ( camphor) كافور. candie ("Heraklion") قند (من سكر قندي) carafe (water pot) غرافة.

  3. France 24 - Wikipedia

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    Open View. Channel 121 (English) Streaming media. Canal Digital Live App. Watch Live. France 24 ( France vingt -quatre in French) is a French publicly-funded international news television network based in Paris. [ 1] Its channels, broadcast in French, English, Arabic and Spanish, are aimed at the overseas market.

  4. List of English words of Arabic origin (A–B) - Wikipedia

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    Alizarin is a red dye with considerable commercial usage. The word's first records are in the early 19th century in France as alizari. The origin and early history of the French word is obscure. Questionably, it may have come from the Arabic العصارة al-ʿasāra = "the juice" (from Arabic root ʿasar = "to squeeze").

  5. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    cachet. lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque.

  6. Influence of Arabic on other languages - Wikipedia

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    The Malay word for bishop is uskup (from Arabic: اسقف usquf = bishop, ultimately from Ancient Greek episkopos [12]). This in turn makes the derived term for "archbishop" uskup agung (literally great bishop), which is combining the Arabic word with an Old Javanese word. The term imam (from Arabic: امام imām = leader, prayer leader) is ...

  7. List of English words of Arabic origin (T–Z) - Wikipedia

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    The list has been restricted to loan words: It excludes loan translations. Here's an example of a loan translation. In Arabic the words for father, mother and son are often used to denote relationships between things. Surrounding the brain and spinal cord is a tough outer layer of membrane called in today's English the dura mater.

  8. List of English words of French origin - Wikipedia

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    This list excludes words that come from French, but were introduced into the English language via a language other than French, which include commodore, domineer, filibuster, ketone, loggia, lotto, mariachi, monsignor, oboe, paella, panzer, picayune, ranch, vendue, and veneer . English words of French origin can also be distinguished from ...

  9. Reverso (language tools) - Wikipedia

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    Reverso has been active since 1998, with the aim of providing online translation and linguistic tools to corporate and mass markets. [3] [4] In 2013 it released Reverso Context, a bilingual dictionary tool based on big data and machine learning algorithms. [5] In 2016 Reverso acquired Fleex, a service for learning English via subtitled movies.