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ʿAbd (عبد) (for male) ʾAmah (أمة) (for female) Servant or worshipper. Muslims consider themselves servants and worshippers of God as per Islam.Common Muslim names such as Abdullah (Servant of God), Abdul-Malik (Servant of the King), Abdur-Rahmān (Slave of the Most Beneficent), Abdus-Salām (Slave of [the originator of] Peace), Abdur-Rahîm (Slave of the Most Merciful), all refer to ...
The Arabic word كَبِير (kabīr) means big from the Semitic root k-b-r. A cognate word for this root exists in Hebrew as כביר (kabir). The Arabic word أَكْبَر (ʾakbar) is the elative form (bigger) of the adjective kabīr. When used in the takbīr it is usually translated as biggest, but some authors translate it as bigger.
Many Arabic type fonts feature special ligatures for Allah. [99] Since Arabic script is used to write other texts rather than Koran only, rendering lām + lām + hā' as the previous ligature is considered faulty which is the case with most common Arabic typefaces.
Tunisian Arabic words and phrases (3 P) Pages in category "Arabic words and phrases" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 331 total.
Islamic honorifics are Arabic phrases, abbreviations and titles that mostly appear as prefixes before or suffixes after the names of people who have had a special mission from God in Islamic world or have done important work towards these missions. [1]
Arabic phrases are used in a variety of other rituals and religious acts, such as during the performance of Hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. Pilgrims recite prayers and phrases in Arabic, including the Talbiyah: "Labbayka Allahumma Labbayk" (Here I am, O Allah, here I am). [16]
ʾilāh is the Arabic cognate of the ancient Semitic name for God, El. The phrase is first found in the first verse of the first sura of the Qur'an ( Al-Fatiha ). So frequently do Muslims and Arabic-speaking Jews and Christians invoke this phrase that the quadriliteral verb hamdala (Arabic: حَمْدَلَ ), "to say al-ḥamdu li-llāh" was ...
Ittaqullah (Arabic: اتقوا الله) is an Arabic word or word-phrase composed of the words "Ittaqu" (the command or imperative form of the word taqwa [1]), and "Allah". It is found in several verses in the Quran, [2] and appears often in Muslim literature. [citation needed]