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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.
The following is a list of translators primarily translating literary works in the Arabic language into English editions that have been published in print. The leading prizes in this field of translation are the Banipal Prize , DarArab Translation Prize and the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award.
The word arrived in English from India in the 2nd half of the 18th century meaning hookah. The Indian word was from Persian, and the Persian was from Arabic, but the Arabic source-word did not mean hookah, although the word re-entered Arabic later on meaning hookah. hummus (food recipe) حمّص himmas, [ħumːmsˤ] (listen ⓘ) chickpea(s).
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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.
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").
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.