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Italian Loanwords Libyan Arabic Italian Word IPA (Western) IPA (Eastern) Meaning Word Meaning ṣālīṭa [sˤɑːliːtˤa] slope salita up slope [1] kinšēllu [kənʃeːlːu] metallic gate cancello gate [2] anguli [aŋɡuli] corner angolo corner [3] ṭānṭa, uṭānṭa [tˤɑːntˤɑ], [utˤɑːntˤɑ] truck ottanta
Ilah (Arabic: إله) is the word for God even in Christian Bible translations. Many early Bible translators, when they came across some unusual Hebrew words or proper names, used the Arabic cognates. In the newer translations this practice is discontinued. They now turn to Greek names or use the original Hebrew Word.
garble غربل gharbal [ɣarbal] (listen ⓘ), to sift.Common in Arabic before year 1000. [2] Early records in European languages are at seaports in Italy and Catalonia. They include Latin garbellare = "to sift" in year 1191 sifting drugs and resins, Latin garbellus = "a sieve for sifting spices" in 1227, Latin garbellare sifting dyestuffs in 1269, Italian gherbellare = "to sift spices and ...
Here’s an excellent list of 205 Arabic names and their meanings. With so many, you’re sure to find one that makes (almost!) everybody happy. Happy choosing!
The alternative is: "It is possible that the Italian word... is really adopted from Arabic ميزان mīzān = "balance". The mizen is, even now, a sail that 'balances,' and the reef in a mizen is still called the 'balance'-reef." [71] [72] mortise The word's origin in 13th-century France is without an explanation in terms of French or Latin.
List of English words of Indian origin; List of English words of Indonesian origin, including from Javanese, Malay (Sumatran) Sundanese, Papuan (West Papua), Balinese, Dayak and other local languages in Indonesia; List of English words of Irish origin. List of Irish words used in the English language; List of English words of Italian origin
Within the Western languages the word's history begins in medieval sea-commerce on the Mediterranean. 12th and 13th century Genoa Latin avaria meant "damage, loss and non-normal expenses arising in connection with a merchant sea voyage"; and the same meaning for avaria is in Marseille in 1210, Barcelona in 1258 and Florence in the late 13th.
In a modern etymology analysis of one medieval Arabic list of medicines, the names of the medicines —primarily plant names— were assessed to be 31% ancient Mesopotamian names, 23% Greek names, 18% Persian, 13% Indian (often via Persian), 5% uniquely Arabic, and 3% Egyptian, with the remaining 7% of unassessable origin.