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Harraga (in arabic: حراقة), Harraga is an Algerian neologism created from the Arabic word “hrag,” meaning “burn” or “those who burn” the borders. It is used to describe irregular North African migrants who attempt to leave for Europe by boat. [4] The verb 'to burn' can also mean 'to jump a queue' or to 'run a light'. [17]
Edward William Lane, in his Arabic-English Lexicon compiled from various traditional Arabic lexicographical sources available in Cairo in the mid-19th-century, reported that "to burn" is the "primary signification" of the verb. [2] The verb then came to be applied to the smelting of gold and silver. It was extended to mean causing one to enter ...
The term derives from Law French arsoun (late 13th century), from Old French arsion, from Late Latin ārsiōnem "a burning," from the verb ardēre, "to burn." [7] [8] [9] The Old English term was bærnet, lit. "burning"; and Edward Coke has indictment of burning (1640). Arsonist is from 1864. [10]
The English verb "to burn", attested since the 12th century, is a combination of Old Norse brenna "to burn, light", and two originally distinct Old English verbs: ...
burn To beat a competitor with a style. To rat out an accomplice or crime partner either intentionally or unintentionally. Illegal pieces usually painted in places that are hard to control. burner 1. A large, more elaborate type of piece. The piece could be said to be "burning" out of the wall, billboard, or train-side.
The word holocaust derives from the Middle English holocaust, which derived from the Anglo-Norman holocauste and Late Latin holocaustum.Its original root was the neuter form of the ancient Greek holokaustos (ὁλόκαυστος), from ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) + καυστός (kaustós, "burnt") or καίω (kaíō, "I burn") with the use of rough breathing to pronounce the leading h.
The country's top doctor wants a new warning added to alcohol that would alert drinkers about links to cancer, but don't expect cigarette-style warning labels any time soon.. U.S. Surgeon General ...
A singe is a treatment available at a barber's. [1] A lit taper (candle) or other device is used to lightly burn and shrivel the hair. The practice of singeing was popular approximately a century ago; it was believed that hair had "fluid" in it and singeing would trap the fluid in. Singeing is supposed to have beneficial effects – sealing cut ends, closing up the follicles, preventing the ...