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  2. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    as a co-official script. The Arabic alphabet, [a] or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, [b] of which most have contextual letterforms. Unlike the Latin alphabet, the script has no concept of letter case.

  3. Darwish - Wikipedia

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    Darwish and Darvish (and in French more prominently Darwich and Darwiche) are alternate transliterations of the Persian word "dervish", used in Arabic: درويش, referring to a Sufi aspirant. There is no v sound in most Modern Arabic dialects and so the originally Persian word is usually pronounced with a w sound in Arabic.

  4. History of the Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The first known recorded text in the Arabic alphabet is known as the Zabad inscription, composed in 512. It is a trilingual dedication in Greek, Syriac and Arabic found at the village of Zabad in northwestern Syria. The version of the Arabic alphabet used includes only 21 letters, of which only 15 are different, being used to note 28 phonemes:

  5. Dervish - Wikipedia

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    Dervish, Darvesh, or Darwīsh (from Persian: درویش, romanized: Darvīsh) [1] in Islam can refer broadly to members of a Sufi fraternity (tariqah), [2][3][4] or more narrowly to a religious mendicant, who chose or accepted material poverty. [2][4][5] The latter usage is found particularly in Persian and Turkish (derviş) as well as in ...

  6. Arabic script - Wikipedia

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    official alongside other scripts. →. official at a provincial level (China, India, Tanzania) or a recognized second script of the official language (Malaysia, Tajikistan) The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic (Arabic alphabet) and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic ...

  7. Ancient South Arabian script - Wikipedia

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    South Arabian inscription addressed to the Sabaean national god Almaqah. The Ancient South Arabian script (Old South Arabian: 𐩣𐩯𐩬𐩵 ms3nd; modern Arabic: الْمُسْنَد musnad) branched from the Proto-Sinaitic script in about the late 2nd millennium BCE. It was used for writing the Old South Arabian languages Sabaic, Qatabanic ...

  8. Ḏāl - Wikipedia

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    Ḏāl (ذ, also be transcribed as dhāl) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ṯāʾ, ḫāʾ, ḍād, ẓāʾ, ġayn). In Modern Standard Arabic it represents / ð /. In name and shape, it is a variant of dāl (د). [1] Its numerical value is 700 (see ...

  9. Sayed Darwish - Wikipedia

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    Singer, songwriter, record producer, musician. Instrument (s) Vocals, oud. Sayed Darwish (Arabic: سيد درويش, IPA: [ˈsæjjed dæɾˈwiːʃ]; 17 March 1892 – 14 September 1923) was an Egyptian singer and composer who was considered the father of Egyptian popular music and one of Egypt's greatest musicians and seen by some as its single ...