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Lisan al-Arab. Lisān al-ʿArab ( Arabic: لسان العرب, lit. 'The Tongue of the Arabs') is a dictionary of Arabic completed by Ibn Manzur in 1290.
The Almaany Dictionary website is an Arab project launched in 2010, with contributions from various countries including Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, and India. It employs linguists, translators, and developers from Arab regions besides the core team in Jordan. It is owned and controlled by Atef Sharaya, who has a Masters degree in Communications ...
1961. ( 1961) A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic is an Arabic–English dictionary compiled by Hans Wehr and edited by J Milton Cowan . First published in 1961 by Otto Harrassowitz in Wiesbaden, Germany, it was an enlarged and revised English version of Wehr's German Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart ("Arabic ...
Ibn Manzur was born in 1233 in Ifriqiya (present day Tunisia ). [2] He was of Arab descent, from the Banu Khazraj tribe of Ansar as his nisba al-Ansārī al-Ifrīqī al-Misrī al-Khazrajī suggests. Ibn Hajar reports that he was a judge ( qadi) in Tripoli, Libya and Egypt and spent his life as clerk in the Diwan al-Insha', an office that was ...
Taj Al-ʿArus min Jawahir Al-Qamus ( تَاج العَرُوس مِن جَوَاهِر القَامُوس, short title Taj al-ʿArus; "The Bride's Crown from the Pearls of al-Qāmūs ") is an Arabic language dictionary written by the Egyptian scholar Murtada al-Zabidi ( Arabic: محمد مرتضى الحسيني الزبيدي; 1732–1790), one of the foremost philologists of the Arab post ...
Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. [2] Arabic is a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family that originated in the Arabian Peninsula. There are considerable variations from region to region, with degrees of mutual intelligibility that are often related ...
Hadhramis, Arab Malaysians, Arab Singaporeans, Arab diaspora. Arab Indonesians ( Arabic: عربٌ إندونيسيون) or, colloquially known as Jama'ah, [3] are Indonesian citizens of mixed Arab – mainly Hadhrami – and Indonesian descent. The ethnic group generally also includes those of Arab descent from other Middle Eastern Arabic ...
The basic Arabic alphabet contains 28 letters. Forms using the Arabic script to write other languages added and removed letters: for example Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish, Urdu, Sindhi, Azerbaijani, Malay, Acehnese, Banjarese, Javanese, Pashto, Punjabi, Uyghur, Arwi and Arabi Malayalam all have additional letters in their alphabets.