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The event of Yawm al-Nakhla (Arabic: يوم نخلة) was an armed conflict between the forces of the Himyarite Kingdom and the Tribes of Arabia which happened around the 3rd century CE in Pre-Islamic Mecca.
To qualify for this list, a word must be reported in etymology dictionaries as having descended from Arabic. A handful of dictionaries have been used as the source for the list. [ 1 ] Words associated with the Islamic religion are omitted; for Islamic words, see Glossary of Islam .
Al-Masudi (died 956) and Ibn al-Awwam (died c. 1200) are examples of Arabic writers who used the word in the sense of an astrology-based talisman. An 11th-century, 400-page Arabic book about occult magic, astrology and talismans, the book entitled the Ghāyat al-Hakīm , uses the word about 200 times in the sense of a talisman, meaning an image ...
[2] [3]: 218 The Nakhla Raid was the seventh caravan raid, and the first successful raid against the Meccans. It took place in Rajab 2 A.H. (January 624 C.E. ). The commander was 'Abdullah ibn Jahsh al-Asadi , [ 3 ] : 218 [ 4 ] whom Muhammad dispatched to Nakhlah as the head of 12 Emigrants with six camels.
The following English words have been acquired either directly from Arabic or else indirectly by passing from Arabic into other languages and then into English. Most entered one or more of the Romance languages before entering English. To qualify for this list, a word must be reported in etymology dictionaries as having descended from Arabic.
Dīn (Arabic: دين, romanized: Dīn, also anglicized as Deen) is an Arabic word with three general senses: judgment, custom, and religion. [1] It is used by both Muslims and Arab Christians . In Islamic terminology, the word refers to the way of life Muslims must adopt to comply with divine law , encompassing beliefs, character and deeds. [ 2 ]
The Arabic 'z' here used is the 17th letter of the Arabic alphabet, an unusual letter with a difficult sound, which came to be rendered by 'd' in Low Latin." [ 4 ] The word's earliest records in the West are in 12th- and 13th-century Latin astronomy texts as nadahir and nadir , with the same meaning as the Arabic, and the earliest is in an ...
Sifting and culling was word's usual meaning in English until the 19th century and today's meaning grew out from it. [5] [6] gauze قزّ qazz [ʃaːʃ] (listen ⓘ), silk of any kind – this is uncertain as the source for the Western word, but etymology dictionaries are almost unanimous the source is probably from medieval Arabic somehow.