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Nalî (Kurdish: نالی ,Nalî), also known as Mallah Xidir Ehmed Şawaysî Mîkayalî (Kurdish: مەلا خدر (خضر) کوڕی ئەحمەدی شاوەیسی ئاڵی بەگی میکایلی) [2] (1800 Shahrizor - 1856 in Constantinople), was born in Khakoo Khol, a village of Sulaymani province.
An example is the Tagalog word libre, which is derived from the Spanish translation of the English word free, although used in Tagalog with the meaning of "without cost or payment" or "free of charge", a usage which would be deemed incorrect in Spanish as the term gratis would be more fitting; Tagalog word libre can also mean free in aspect of ...
Nali may refer to: Nalî (1797–1869), Kurdish poet; Náli, a Dwarf of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium; Nali, a dwarf of Norse mythology; Nali, an alien race in the video game Unreal; Nali language, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea; Mirza Nali (1784–1860), Mughal crown prince; Nali Sauce, Malawian hot sauce made from Bird ...
Pedro Bucaneg (March 1592 – c. 1630) was a Filipino poet. He is considered the "Father of Ilocano literature." Blind since birth, he is the believed to have authored of parts of the Ilocano epic Biag ni Lam-ang (Life of Lam-ang). [1] A street inside the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) complex in Pasay, Philippines is named in his honor.
He formerly served as the chairman of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF), the government agency mandated to promote and standardize the use of the Filipino language. On January 5, 2017, Almario was also elected as the chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA). [2] Virgilio Almario at a poetry reading in June 2011.
This word is shared with British English. Course [18] — Academic degree. Shared with British English partly due to the Spanish word curso and its borrowed form in many Philippine languages. Cutex [10] — Nail polish. Dean's lister [39] — A person awarded a dean's list; Despedida party [7] [5] — A farewell party. The word despedida is a ...
Charles E. Derbyshire (January 17, 1880 – April 10, 1933) was an American educator and translator active in the Philippines in the early 20th century. Derbyshire is best known for his English translations of Filipino nationalist José Rizal's novels Noli Me Tángere (1887) and El Filibusterismo (1891), titled The Social Cancer and The Reign of Greed, respectively.
Coates's Rizal Philippine Nationalist and Martyr is the second biographical account of the life and career of Rizal authored by a non-Filipino (the first was Vida y Escritos del Dr. José Rizal or "Life and Writings of Dr. José Rizal" written by W.E. Retana that was published in 1907, thus Coates's book on Rizal was the first European biography of Rizal since that year).