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yakabikaj
Fun #etymology of the day: Yiddish באקאליינע bakaleyne "grocery store", ultimately from Arabic بقالة biqāla or بقال baqqāl. It was borrowed from Arabic into Persian as بقالی baqqālī, and from
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Bruce Fenton
brucefenton
1/Jesus Christ spoke Aramaic and when he preached about God he used the Aramaic word for God, Ellah, also referred to as Allah.The word "Allah" existed for at least 1000
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Benjamin Suchard
bnuyaminim
#HappyHanukkah ! Thought I'd do some tweets on #Semitic numerals, starting with one and seeing how many nights it lasts.As argued by Aren Wilson-Wright, Proto-Semitic for 'one' was *ʕast-. *waħad-
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shivthinker
shivani paliwal speaking other languages; a thread! portuguese portuguese again and again spanish arabic arabic again russian russian again tagalog japanese
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Carlos Osweda
COsweda
THREADWatch THIS.There's absolutely no doubt that @realDonaldTrump understands and almost certainly speaks Arabic.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEdQr1wjXIs When Trump can't understand the heavily accented English of an Arabic-Spea
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Nikita Kuzin
NikitaKuzin7
In Ṭuroyo (Neo-Aramaic), comparatives can be built in three different ways: 1. by using the shortened form of the adjective (the so-called ‘absolute’, or ‘indeterminate’ state); 2. with the help
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Gul⁷
GulGhutae
Did you know that the Quran was first sent in 7 dialects of Arabic for convenience of the Arabs living in different geographical locations?Example, the Mushaf in Iraq & Syria
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Mohamed Negm
negm_official
The most important figure in the #Egypt_new_budget 2020/2021 is the #debt_payments as a ratio to expenses and revenues.This percentage will decrease to 30% of expenses or 39% of revenue instead
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HAZINE
HAZINEblog
If you're teaching with digital tools & digitized sources, remember that your students should know how they're constructedWe have interviews that can be assigned to high school, undergrad & grad
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people aren’t metaphors
ellen_perleberg
A brief thread on the life, religion, and language of Omar ibn Sa’id, author of the only known Arabic-language autobiography of an enslaved person in the United States. Omar ibn
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Glen Scrivener ن
glenscrivener
True story. A neighbour came to the door tonight very concerned.Her: I know you started our street's WhatsApp group and you know everybody so maybe you already know what I'm
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Thomas A. Carlson
MedievalMidEast
Today I found news of a #Crusader lord written within a decade of the events, in an #Arabic geographical source. #medieval #MiddleEast I'm working through place names in an Arabic
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𝔤𝔬𝔬𝔡 𝔳𝔦𝔟𝔢𝔰 𝔬𝔫𝔩𝔶
Rogatchover
שנו חכמים בלשון המשנה ברוך שבחר בהם ובמשנתםThe following is a list of words which I believe made their way into hebrew from translations of judeo Arabic by Ibn Tibbon
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Aabhas Maldahiyar 🇮🇳
Aabhas24
1/n #SadarPranam to Ishvara within u Rana Ma'am.Muslims never laid foundation for scientific temperament. Muslim world copied the works of Indians &Greeks. The article of @ThePrintIndia that u share is
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Lameen Souag
lameensouag
"Nhopiw" and contact linguistics: A threadIn Algerian Arabic, French verbs are borrowed all the time, almost always by putting -a/i at the end, like Arabic weak verbs:"pray!" ṣəlli!"freeze!" kõžli!"I
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James Pickett
pickettzoda
an'ana / анъана / ئەنئەنە, the word for 'tradition' in modern Uzbek, Tajik, and Uyghur, has an interesting etymology connecting it to very early Islamic history. This word initially puzzled
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