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  2. Modern Standard Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Modern Standard Arabic is also spoken by people of Arab descent outside the Arab world when people of Arab descent speaking different dialects communicate to each other. As there is a prestige or standard dialect of vernacular Arabic, speakers of standard colloquial dialects code-switch between these particular dialects and MSA. [citation needed]

  3. Lisan al-Arab - Wikipedia

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    Ibn Manzur compiled it from other sources to a large degree. The most important sources for it were the Tahdhīb al-Lugha of Azharī, Al-Muḥkam of Ibn Sidah, Al-Nihāya of Ibn Athīr and Jauhari's Ṣiḥāḥ, as well as the ḥawāshī (glosses) of the latter (Kitāb at-Tanbīh wa-l-Īḍāḥ) by Ibn Barrī. [3]

  4. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    (1) Early 9th century script used no dots or diacritic marks; [13] (2) and (3) in the 9th–10th century during the Abbasid dynasty, Abu al-Aswad's system used red dots with each arrangement or position indicating a different short vowel.

  5. Kitab al-I'tibar - Wikipedia

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    Arab doctors were also good at bone setting, as well as stitching, Usama describes one man whose face was struck with a sword which: Cut through his eyebrow, eyelid, cheek, nose and upper lip, making the whole side of his face hang down on his chest. ..his face was stitched and his cut was treated until he was healed and returned to his former ...

  6. List of Arabic place names - Wikipedia

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    Places involved in the history of the Arab world and the Arabic names given to them. Places whose official names include an Arabic form. Places whose names originate from the Arabic language. All names are in Standard Arabic and academically transliterated. Most of these names are used in modern times, but many of these Arabic forms are not in ...

  7. Old Arabic - Wikipedia

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    haː mlkm malkamu w wa kms 1 kamaːsu w wa qws 1 kʼawsu b bi km kumu ʿwḏn ʕawuðnaː [failed verification] h mlkm w kms1 w qws1 b km ʿwḏn haː malkamu wa kamaːsu wa kʼawsu bi kumu ʕawuðnaː "O Malkom and Kemosh and Qaws, in ye we seek refuge" A characteristic of Nabataean Arabic and Old Hijazi (from which Classical Arabic much later developed) is the definite article al-. The first ...

  8. Sudanese Arabic - Wikipedia

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    In 1889 the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain claimed that the Arabic spoken in Sudan was "a pure but archaic Arabic". [12] This is related to Sudanese Arabic's realization of the Modern Standard Arabic voiceless uvular plosive [q] as the voiced velar stop [g], as is done in Sa'idi Arabic and other varieties of Sudanic Arabic, as well as Sudanese Arabic's ...

  9. Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

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    The United Arab States was a short-lived confederation of the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) and North Yemen from 1958 to 1961. [15]The title of the book refers to Arabs without using the definite article "the" (Arabs instead of the Arabs) because, according to the author, the meaning of the word has repeatedly changed over time, making it "misleading" to use. [16]