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  2. 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]

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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]

  5. 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.

  6. 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 ...

  7. List of Arab League countries by population - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is a list of Arab League countries and territories by population . Present. Population by Arab League ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Arabic script in Unicode - Wikipedia

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    Many scripts in Unicode, such as Arabic, have special orthographic rules that require certain combinations of letterforms to be combined into special ligature forms.In English, the common ampersand (&) developed from a ligature in which the handwritten Latin letters e and t (spelling et, Latin for and) were combined. [1]