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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]
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.
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.
The New York Times’ associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu has been credited for helping to create the game. But when she shared a link to it on Twitter, Victoria Coren-Mitchell, host of the popular ...
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
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.
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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.