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This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
ḥamd(u), literally meaning "praise", "commendation". li-llāh(i), preposition + noun Allāh. Li-is a dative preposition meaning "to". The word Allāh (Arabic: ٱللَّٰه) is the proper name of the God of Abraham. "Al ilah" means "The God", and it is a contraction of the definite article al-and the word ʾilāh (Arabic: إِلَٰه, "god ...
Li or Lee (; Chinese: 李; pinyin: Lǐ) is a common Chinese surname, it is the 4th name listed in the famous Hundred Family Surnames. [1] Li is one of the most common surnames in Asia, shared by 92.76 million people in China, [2] and more than 100 million in Asia. [3]
雷 is the 79th-most-common surname in mainland China but not included among the 100 most common surnames on Taiwan.. In the United States, Lei is an uncommon surname, ranking 14,849th during the 1990 census and 6,583rd during the year 2000 census. [2]
Al-Shimali and his logistics teams also controlled smuggling, financial transfers and movement of supplies into Syria and Iraq from Europe, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula. [1] On September 29, 2015, the U.S. Department of the Treasury placed al-Shimali on its Specially Designated Nationals list for acting for or on behalf of ISIL. The ...
The name Ali is also used in various other cultures as a given name. Among English speakers it is used as a short form of male or female names starting with "Ali", such as Alice, Alison, Alisha, Alistair, Alexander, or Alexandra. In Old Norse, Áli and Åle are alternative forms of Onela. Ali is a Finnish male given name, derived from ...
Two other names for Jerusalem also derive from the Q-D-S root: Bayt al-Muqqadas ("the holy house") and Bayt al-Maqdis. [19] [22] [23] The wider area around Jerusalem, or the Holy Land, is referred to in Arabic and in Islamic sources as al ard al-muqaddasa (also Bilād al-Muqaddasa), as it is full of shrines and connections to prophets and saints.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un (Arabic: إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ, ʾinnā li-llāhi wa-ʾinnā ʾilayhi rājiʿūn a), also known as Istirja (Arabic: إِسْتِرْجَاع, ʾIstirjāʿ), is an Arabic phrase, mentioned in the second surah of the Quran, [1] and meaning "Indeed ...