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Ibn Tibbon family – translator of Greek, Roman, Arab, and Jewish works from Arabic. Emperor D. Pedro II – translator of poetry by Luís de Camões from Portuguese. Abraham Regelson – translator of literature from English and Yiddish. Yitzhak Salkinsohn – relatively early (19th century) translator of Milton and Shakespeare.
The English dates from about 1600 and came directly from Arabic through English-language travellers reports from the Middle East. [28] [29] Alkanet dye is a reddish natural dye made from the roots of Alkanna tinctoria and this word is 14th-century English, with a Romance-language diminutive suffix '-et', from medieval Latin alcanna meaning both "henna" and "alkanet", from Arabic al-hinnā ...
Arabic is a Semitic language and English is an Indo-European language. The following words have been acquired either directly from Arabic or else indirectly by passing from Arabic into other languages and then into English. Most entered one or more of the Romance languages, before entering English.
The Arabic Wikipedia (Arabic: ويكيبيديا العربية) is the Modern Standard Arabic version of Wikipedia. It started on 9 July 2003. It started on 9 July 2003. As of July 2024, it has 1,236,173 articles, 2,596,637 registered users and 54,473 files and it is the 17th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 7th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.
Alizarin is a red dye with considerable commercial usage. The word's first records are in the early 19th century in France as alizari. The origin and early history of the French word is obscure. Questionably, it may have come from the Arabic العصارة al-ʿasāra = "the juice" (from Arabic root ʿasar = "to squeeze").
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tanbur, tanbura, tambur, tambura, tambouras, tamburica, tembûr. These are all long-necked plucked string musical instruments. From Arabic طنبور ṭunbūr (also ṭanbūr) [tˤanbuːr] ( listen ⓘ ), long-necked plucked string instrument. The word occurs early and often in medieval Arabic.
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