When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Modern Standard Arabic - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic

    Modern Standard Arabic is also spoken by people of Arab descent outside the Arab world when people of Arab descent speaking different dialects communicate to each other. As there is a prestige or standard dialect of vernacular Arabic, speakers of standard colloquial dialects code-switch between these particular dialects and MSA. [citation needed]

  3. Lisan al-Arab - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisan_al-Arab

    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]

  4. Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabs:_A_3,000-Year...

    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. Arab world - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world

    ISBN 978-3-638-86642-2. Deng, Francis Mading (1995). War of visions: Conflict of identities in the Sudan. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution. ISBN 0-8157-1794-6. Frishkopf, Michael (2010). "Introduction: Music and media in the Arab world and Music and media in the Arab world as music and media in the Arab world: A metadiscourse". In ...

  6. Old Arabic - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Arabic

    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 ...

  7. Arabic script in Unicode - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_script_in_Unicode

    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] The rules governing ligature formation in Arabic can be quite complex, requiring special script-shaping technologies such as the Arabic Calligraphic Engine by Thomas Milo's DecoType.

  8. List of Arabic place names - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arabic_place_names

    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.

  9. Kitab al-I'tibar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitab_al-I'tibar

    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 ...