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Influential Arabic dictionaries in modern usage: English: Collins Dictionaries, Collins Essential - Arabic Essential Dictionary, Collins, Glasgow 2018. [21] English: Lahlali, El Mustapha & Tajul Islam, A Dictionary of Arabic Idioms and Expressions: Arabic-English Translation, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2024. [22]
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 ]
The list has been restricted to loan words: It excludes loan translations. Here's an example of a loan translation. In Arabic the words for father, mother and son are often used to denote relationships between things. Surrounding the brain and spinal cord is a tough outer layer of membrane called in today's English the dura mater.
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
woman is man's ruin "Part of a comic definition of woman" from the Altercatio Hadriani Augusti et Secundi. [10] Famously quoted by Chauntecleer in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. multa paucis: Say much in few words: multis e gentibus vires: from many peoples, strength: Motto of Saskatchewan: multitudo sapientium sanitas orbis
Abd (Arabic) Abu Turab; Adl; After Saturday comes Sunday; Ahl al-Bayt; Ajam; Al-Farooq (title) Al-Insān al-Kāmil; Al-Quds (disambiguation) Al-Wakil; Alcalde; Alhamdulillah; Alids; Aljama; Allahu akbar; Allahumma; Allamah; Amanah (administrative division) Arabic compound; Arabic definite article; Arabic diacritics; Arabic language influence on ...
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Arabic has a wide range of idioms differing from a region to another. In some Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, one would say إذا حجت البقرة على قرونها idha ḥajjit il-bagara `ala gurunha ("when the cow goes on pilgrimage on its horns").