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q: Q or q, the 17th letter of the modern English alphabet [MW] Greek or Latin: qabab: A dish consisting of pieces of seasoned meat [OED] More commonly written kebab, kebap, kebob, kibob, kebhav, kephav, kebabie, or kabob: Persian کباب: qabalah: A form of Jewish mysticism [C][AHC][WI]
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French camocas or Medieval Latin camoca, from Arabic & Persian كمخه کمکها kamkha, kimkha. a medieval fabric prob. of silk and camel's hair used for draperies and garments. [53] Candy from Old French sucre candi, via Arabic قند qandi "candied," derived from Persian قند qand, meaning "sugar."
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Some cuisine words of lesser circulation are Ful medames, Kabsa, Kushari, Labneh, Mahleb, Mulukhiyah, Ma'amoul, Mansaf, Shanklish, Tepsi Baytinijan. For more see Arab cuisine. Middle Eastern cuisine words were rare before 1970 in English, being mostly confined to travellers' reports. Usage increased rapidly in the 1970s for certain words.
The Arabic 'z' here used is the 17th letter of the Arabic alphabet, an unusual letter with a difficult sound, which came to be rendered by 'd' in Low Latin." [ 4 ] The word's earliest records in the West are in 12th- and 13th-century Latin astronomy texts as nadahir and nadir , with the same meaning as the Arabic, and the earliest is in an ...
The following English words have been acquired either directly from Arabic or else indirectly by passing from Arabic into other languages and then into English. Most entered one or more of the Romance languages before entering English. To qualify for this list, a word must be reported in etymology dictionaries as having descended from Arabic.
The Oxford Hebrew-English Dictionary transliterates the letter Qoph (קוֹף ) as q or k; and, when word-final, it may be transliterated as ck. [ citation needed ] The English spellings of Biblical names (as derived via Latin from Biblical Greek ) containing this letter may represent it as c or k , e.g. Cain for Hebrew Qayin , or Kenan for ...
Q, or q, is the seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is pronounced / ˈ k j uː / , most commonly spelled cue , but also kew , kue , and que .