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  2. List of English words of Arabic origin - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of English words containing Q not followed by U

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    QWERTY, one of the few native English words with Q not followed by U, is derived from the first six letters of a standard keyboard layout. In English, the letter Q is almost always followed immediately by the letter U, e.g. quiz, quarry, question, squirrel. However, there are some exceptions.

  4. List of English words of Arabic origin (G–J) - Wikipedia

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    The English dates from about 1600 and came directly from Arabic through English-language travellers reports from the Middle East. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Alkanet dye is a reddish natural dye made from the roots of Alkanna tinctoria and this word is 14th-century English, with a Romance-language diminutive suffix '-et', from medieval Latin alcanna meaning ...

  5. List of English words of Persian origin - Wikipedia

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    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."

  6. Wikipedia:Language recognition chart - Wikipedia

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    letter c rarely used except in the sequences listed above and in loanwords; long compound words; a period (.) after ordinal numbers, e.g. 3. Oktober; many capitalised words in the middle of sentences since German capitalizes all nouns.

  7. Opinion - Time to rethink the borders of the Middle East map

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    The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse of Syria has led to calls for the region to be divided according to ...

  8. List of English words of Arabic origin (A–B) - Wikipedia

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    Medieval Latin word-forms included ammiratus, ammirandus, amirallus, admiratus, admiralius, [2] while in late medieval French and English the usual word-forms were amiral and admiral. [5] The insertion of the letter 'd' was undoubtedly influenced by allusion to the word admire, a classical Latin word. [6] adobe

  9. List of Arabic place names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of traditional Arabic place names.This list includes: Places involved in the history of the Arab world and the Arabic names given to them.; Places whose official names include an Arabic form.