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Tourists dressed as maiko on a rickshaw in Kyoto, Japan. A pulled rickshaw (from Japanese jinrikisha (人力車) 'person/human-powered vehicle') is a mode of human-powered transport by which a runner draws a two-wheeled cart which seats one or two people.
A word search. A word search, word find, word seek, word sleuth or mystery word puzzle is a word game that consists of the letters of words placed in a grid, which usually has a rectangular or square shape. The objective of this puzzle is to find and mark all the words hidden inside the box. The words may be placed horizontally, vertically, or ...
I did not include any other text, so let anyone who cites my book understand that he is citing these five original sources. [1] 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 ...
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Mheibes (Arabic: محيبس) is a traditional game involving two teams. It is mostly played in the Arab Mashriq, and specifically in Iraq and it is roughly equivalent to the English game Up Jenkins. The word Mheibes is a cognate of the word Mihbes (Arabic: محبس), which means ring. The game involves two teams, with each team attempting to ...
The word arrived in English from India in the 2nd half of the 18th century meaning hookah. [32] The Indian word was from Persian, and the Persian was from Arabic, but the Arabic source-word did not mean hookah, although the word re-entered Arabic later on meaning hookah. [33] hummus (food recipe) حمّص himmas, [ħumːmsˤ] (listen ...
The ancient Greeks had the word nitron with the meaning of naturally occurring sodium carbonate and similar salts. The medieval Arabs had this spelled نطرون natrūn [natˤruːn] (listen ⓘ) with the same meaning. Today's European word natron, meaning hydrated sodium carbonate, is descended from the Arabic. [6]