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  2. Nabataean script - Wikipedia

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    The Nabataean script is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) that was used to write Nabataean Aramaic and Nabataean Arabic from the second century BC onwards. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Important inscriptions are found in Petra (now in Jordan ), the Sinai Peninsula (now part of Egypt ), and other archaeological sites including Abdah (in Palestine ) and Mada'in ...

  3. Nabil - Wikipedia

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    Nabīl or Nabeel (Arabic: نبيل), rendered in some languages as Nebil, is a male given name of Arabic origin, meaning "noble". [1] The feminine version is Nabila, Nabeela, Nabilah, Nabeela or Nabeelah.

  4. Arabic typography - Wikipedia

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    Arabic typography is the typography of letters, graphemes, characters or text in Arabic script, for example for writing Arabic, Persian, or Urdu. 16th century Arabic typography was a by-product of Latin typography with Syriac and Latin proportions and aesthetics.

  5. Abjad - Wikipedia

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    Al-ʻArabiyya, meaning "Arabic": an example of the Arabic script, which is an impure abjad Impure abjads have characters for some vowels, optional vowel diacritics, or both. The term pure abjad refers to scripts entirely lacking in vowel indicators. [ 12 ]

  6. Arabic script - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic script, also called the Perso-Arabic script [a] (in Persian: دبیره پارسی-عربی) is the writing system used for Arabic (Arabic alphabet) and several other languages of Asia and Africa.

  7. Nabataean Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Nabataean Arabic was the dialect of Arabic spoken by the Nabataeans in antiquity. It was succeeded by the Paleo-Arabic script. In the first century AD, the Nabataeans wrote their inscriptions, such as the legal texts carved on the façades of the monumental tombs at Mada'in Salih , ancient Ḥegrā, in Nabataean Aramaic .

  8. Namara inscription - Wikipedia

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    The script has ligatures between some letters that show a transition towards an Arabic script. Some of the terms used in the text are closer to Aramaic than Arabic; for example, it uses the Aramaic patronymic "b-r", rather than the Arabic term "b-n". However, most of the text is very close to the Classical Arabic used in the Qur'an in the 7th ...

  9. Nabila - Wikipedia

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    Nabila, and its variant spellings Nabeela, Nabillah, Nebila, and Nabeelah, is the feminine variation of the given name Nabil, meaning noble. [1] Notable people with the name include: Masuma Rahman Nabila (born 1985), Bangladeshi film actress and model