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This Arabic word occurs occasionally in English and French in the 19th century. Sabkha with a technical meaning as coastal salt-flat terrain came into general use in sedimentology in the 20th century through numerous studies of the coastal salt flats on the eastern side of the Arabian peninsula. [25] [26] safari سفر safar [safar] (listen ...
Safar (Arabic: صَفَر, romanized: Ṣafar), also spelt as Safer in Turkish, [1] is the second month of the lunar Islamic calendar. The Arabic word ṣafar means "travel, migration", corresponding to the pre-Islamic Arabian time period when Muslims fled the oppression of Quraish in Mecca and travelled (mostly barefooted) to Madina.
David Larsen, translator of Names of the Lion by Ibn Khalawayh (Wave Books, 2017), winner of the 2018 Harold Landon Morton Award. M ... List of Arabic-English ...
13 Safar is most authentic M: 30th day after ʿĀshūrāʾ: R: Victory to Ali in the Battle of Nahrawan: 12: R: Birth of Salman the Persian: 17: M: Martyrdom of Ali ar-Ridha, 203 AH: According to some scholars 29 Safar or 23rd Dhu al-Qi'dah 20: M: Ar'baeen / Chehlum: 40th day after ʿĀshūrāʾ 28: M: Martyrdom of Muhammad, 11 AH: M: Martyrdom ...
The Umrah (Arabic: عُمْرَة, lit. 'to visit a populated place') is an Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, the holiest city for Muslims, located in the Hejazi region of Saudi Arabia. It can be undertaken at any time of the year, in contrast to the Ḥajj (/ h æ dʒ /; [1] "pilgrimage"), which has specific dates according to the Islamic lunar ...
The Arabic names of the months of the Gregorian calendar are usually phonetic Arabic pronunciations of the corresponding month names used in European languages. An exception is the Assyrian calendar used in Iraq and the Levant, whose month names are inherited via Classical Arabic from the Babylonian and Aramaic lunisolar calendars and correspond to roughly the same time of year.
The Ottoman Turkish word سفربرلك (seferberlik) is a compound of the Arabic noun سفر (safar, "campaign"), the Persian suffix -بر (-bar, "-carrier"), and the Ottoman suffix -لق (-lık, forming abstract nouns), and means 'mobilisation.'" [4] [5] The Modern Turkish expression umumî seferberlik has been translated into Arabic as النفير العام (an-nafīr al-ʿāmm, 'general ...
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist.She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making as an Arabist due to her knowledge and contacts built up through extensive travels.