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Jessica (originally Iessica, also Jesica, Jesika, Jessicah, Jessika, or Jessikah) [1] is a female given name of Hebrew origin. The oldest written record of the name with its current spelling is found as the name of the Shakespearean character Jessica , from the play The Merchant of Venice .
"Arabic" = Letters used in Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, and most regional dialects. "Farsi" = Letters used in modern Persian. FW = Foreign words: the letter is sometimes used to spell foreign words. SV = Stylistic variant: the letter is used interchangeably with at least one other letter depending on the calligraphic style.
Pages in category "Arabic-language feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 217 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Arabic alphabet, [a] or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, [ b ] of which most have contextual letterforms.
When a letter was at the end of a word, it often developed an end loop, and as a result most Arabic letters have two or more shapes, so for example n ن and y ي have different shapes at the end of the words ( ـي , ـن ) but they have the same linked initial and medial shapes ( يـ , نـ ) as b, t, and ṯ ( بـ , تـ and ثـ ), the ...
To handle those Arabic letters that cannot be accurately represented using the Latin script, numerals and other characters were appropriated. For example, the numeral "3" may be used to represent the Arabic letter ع . There is no universal name for this type of transliteration, but some have named it Arabic Chat Alphabet or IM Arabic. Other ...
The Arab Liberation Flag borrowed the pan-Arab colors from the 1916 flag of the Arab Revolt.While the colors of black, white, red, and green on the original Arab revolt flag symbolized historical Arab dynasties, namely the Abbasids, Umayyads, Hashemites, and Islam (or possibly the Fatimids), respectively, the Arab Liberation Flag colors also had different meanings.
The literal meaning of تَشْكِيل tashkīl is 'formation'. As the normal Arabic text does not provide enough information about the correct pronunciation, the main purpose of tashkīl (and ḥarakāt) is to provide a phonetic guide or a phonetic aid; i.e. show the correct pronunciation for children who are learning to read or foreign learners.