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  2. List of English words of Arabic origin - Wikipedia

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    Archaic and rare words are also omitted. A bigger listing including words very rarely seen in English is at Wiktionary dictionary. Given the number of words which have entered English from Arabic, this list is split alphabetically into sublists, as listed below: List of English words of Arabic origin (A-B) List of English words of Arabic origin ...

  3. List of English words of Arabic origin (K–M) - Wikipedia

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    قسمة qisma [qisma] ( listen ⓘ ), destinity, fate. Kismet was borrowed into English via Turkish from the original Arabic word qisma which means portion or lot. [6] kohl (cosmetics) كحل kohl [kuħl] ( listen ⓘ ), finely powdered galena , stibnite, and similar sooty-colored powder used for eye-shadow, eye-liner, and mascara.

  4. List of English words of Arabic origin (A–B) - Wikipedia

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    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").

  5. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    There is one count that puts the English vocabulary at about 1 million words — but that count presumably includes words such as Latin species names, prefixed and suffixed words, scientific terminology, jargon, foreign words of extremely limited English use and technical acronyms. [39] [40] [41] Urdu. 264,000. 264000.

  6. TNT Sports (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    TNT Sports (United Kingdom) require Needlessly long lists of presenters in the Programming section. TNT Sports (formerly BT Sport) is a group of pay television sports channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and BT Group, they first launched on 1 August 2013.

  7. Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Langenscheidt dictionaries in various languages. A multi-volume Latin dictionary by Egidio Forcellini. Dictionary definition entries. A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for logographic languages ...

  8. List of English words of Dravidian origin - Wikipedia

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    The origin of this word cannot be conclusively attributed to Malayalam or Tamil. Congee, porridge, water with rice; uncertain origin, possibly from Tamil kanji (கஞ்சி), [7] Telugu or Kannada gañji, or Malayalam kaññi (കഞ്ഞി). [citation needed] Alternatively, possibly from Gujarati, [8] which is not a Dravidian language.

  9. BT Group - Wikipedia

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    BT Group. BT Group plc (formerly British Telecom) is a British multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England. It has operations in around 180 countries and is the largest provider of fixed-line, broadband and mobile services in the UK, and also provides subscription television and IT services. [5]