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Aram (Armenian: Արամ pronounced, Imperial Aramaic: אַרָם) is an Armenian patriarch in the History of Armenia, and a popular masculine name in Aramaic and Armenian. [1] It appears in Hebrew , Aramaic as Aram, son of Shem and in cuneiform as Arame of Urartu .
The word arrived in English from India in the 2nd half of the 18th century meaning hookah. [32] The Indian word was from Persian, and the Persian was from Arabic, but the Arabic source-word did not mean hookah, although the word re-entered Arabic later on meaning hookah. [33] hummus (food recipe) حمّص himmas, [ħumːmsˤ] (listen ...
A magazine in the publishing sense of the word started in the English language, and its start was in the 17th century meaning a store of information about military or navigation subjects. [34] [35] marcasite مرقشيثا marqashīthā, iron sulfide, from Arabic مَرَقشِيت [maraqʃiːt] (listen ⓘ).
The word with that meaning was used by, e.g., the astronomers Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī (died 998) and Abu al-Salt (died 1134). [35] The word with the same meaning entered Latin in the later Middle Ages in the context of Astrolabes. [36] Crossref azimuth, which entered the European languages on the same pathway. [37] alkali
Aram (surname), including a list of people with the surname; Aram, son of Shem, a biblical figure; Aram, from whom the name of Armenia may derive; Aram I (born 1947), catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church; Aram (actress) (Azam Mirhabibi, born 1953), Iranian film actress; Ram (biblical figure), or Aram in the New Testament
Word British English meanings Meanings common to British and American English American English meanings daddy longlegs, daddy-long-legs crane fly: daddy long-legs spider: Opiliones: dead (of a cup, glass, bottle or cigarette) empty, finished with very, extremely ("dead good", "dead heavy", "dead rich") deceased
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from A to G. See also the lists from H to O and from P to Z . Some of those used in medicine and medical technology are not listed here but instead in the entry for List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes .