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Danglish is a form of speech or writing that combines elements of Danish and English. The word Danglish is a portmanteau of Danish and English and has been in use since 1990. [1] A variant form is Denglish, recorded since 2006. [2] The term is used in Denmark to refer to the use of English or pseudo-English vocabulary in Danish.
The ancient Greeks had the word nitron with the meaning of naturally occurring sodium carbonate and similar salts. The medieval Arabs had this spelled نطرون natrūn [natˤruːn] (listen ⓘ) with the same meaning. Today's European word natron, meaning hydrated sodium carbonate, is descended from the Arabic. [6]
The Arabic-to-Latin translation of Ibn Sina's The Canon of Medicine helped establish many Arabic plant names in later medieval Latin. [2] A book about medicating agents by Serapion the Younger containing hundreds of Arabic botanical names circulated in Latin among apothecaries in the 14th and 15th centuries. [ 3 ]
It has Arabic to English translations and English to Arabic, as well as a significant quantity of technical terminology. It is useful to translators as its search results are given in context. [6] Almaany offers correspondent meanings for Arabic terms with semantically similar words and is widely used in Arabic language research. [7]
From its use in astronomy in Arabic, the term was borrowed into astronomy in Latin in the 12th century. The first-known securely-dated record in the Western languages is in the Arabic-to-Latin translation of Al-Battani. [27] Crossref the word nadir, whose first record in the West is in the very same Arabic-to-Latin translation. [28] zero
Denglisch may combine words according to English rules by writing them in succession. According to the Standard German grammar and spelling rules, that is incorrect. Reparatur Annahme instead of Reparaturannahme. The first spelling, with two separate words, makes no logical or grammatical connection between the words but simply juxtaposes them.
Errors occur mainly in pronunciation, word order, stress laid on the wrong syllables, and the meaning of words, so-called false friends and false cognates. Former Dutch ambassador and prime minister Dries van Agt supposedly once said "I can stand my little man" (translation of ik kan mijn mannetje staan , a Dutch idiom meaning roughly "I can ...
Martyr (The same term is used in Islamic terminology for the "martyrs of Islam", but the meaning is different) literal meaning of the word shahid is "witness" i.e. witness of god/believer in God. Sim‘ānu l-Ghayūr (سِمْعَانُ الْغَيُور) Simon the Zealot Sim‘ānu Butrus (سِمْعَانُ بطرس) Simon Peter