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After 1,001 stories, Scheherazade tells Shahryar that she has no more stories for him. Fortunately, during the telling of the stories, Shahryar has grown into a wise ruler and rekindles his trust in women. The word šahryâr (Persian: شهریار) derives from the Middle Persian šahr-dār, 'holder of a kingdom' (i.e. 'lord, sovereign, king'). [1]
The kalb (Arabic: كَلْب, dog) of the sleepers of the cave (18:18–22) [15] The namlah (Arabic: نَمْلَة, Female ant) of Solomon (27:18–19) [13] The nāqat (Arabic: نَاقَة, she-camel) of Salih [25] The nūn (Arabic: نُوْن, fish or whale) of Jonah [26] The ḥūt (Arabic: حُوْت, large fish) of Moses
Levantine Arabic, also called Shami (autonym: شامي, šāmi or اللهجة الشامية, el-lahje š-šāmiyye), is an Arabic variety spoken in the Levant, namely in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and southern Turkey (historically only in Adana, Mersin and Hatay provinces).
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Jordanian Arabic is a dialect continuum of mutually intelligible varieties of Arabic spoken in Jordan. Jordanian Arabic can be divided into sedentary and Bedouin varieties. [ 2 ] Sedentary varieties belong to the Levantine Arabic dialect continuum.
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Many Western words entered Arabic through Ottoman Turkish as Turkish was the main language for transmitting Western ideas into the Arab world. There are about 3,000 Turkish borrowings in Syrian Arabic, mostly in administration and government, army and war, crafts and tools, house and household, dress, and food and dishes.
Nabataean Arabic inscription from Umm al-Jimal in northern Jordan.. The Nabataean script is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) that was used to write Nabataean Aramaic and Nabataean Arabic from the second century BC onwards.