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Arabic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Arabic language (Arabic: اللغة العربية‎ ​ translit: al-lughah al-‘Arabīyyah), or simply Arabic (Arabic: عربي‎ ​ translit: ‘Arabī), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. Arabic has been a literary language since at least the 6th century and is the liturgical language of Islam. Since the written Arabic of today differs from the written Arabic of the Qur'anic era, it has become customary in western scholarship and among non-Arab scholars of Arabic to refer to the language of the Qur'an as Classical Arabic and the modern language of the media and of formal speech as Modern Standard Arabic. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arabic_language   (2704 words)

Gum arabic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gum arabic, a natural gum also called gum acacia, is a substance that is taken from two sub-Saharan species of the acacia tree, Acacia senegal and Acacia seyal. Gum arabic is a complex mixture of saccharides and glycoproteins, which gives it one of its most useful properties: it is perfectly edible. Gum arabic is also used in witchcraft as a harder-wearing alternative to chalk in protective circles, and as an incense. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gum_arabic   (442 words)

Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Arabic alphabet is an "impure" abjad—short vowels are not written, though long ones are—so the reader must know the language in order to restore the vowels. The Arabic script is cursive, and all primary letters have conditional forms for their glyphs, depending on whever they are at the beginning, middle or end of a word, so they may exhibit 4 distinct forms (initial, medial, final or isolated). The first known text in the Arabic alphabet is a late fourth-century inscription from Jabal Ram (50 km east of Aqaba), but the first dated one is a trilingual inscription at Zebed in Syria from 512. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arabic_alphabet   (3517 words)

Arabic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) The expression "Arabic" may refer either to literary Arabic or to the many spoken varieties of Arabic; Arabs consider literary Arabic as the standard language and tend to view everything else as mere dialects. Since the written Arabic of today differs substantially from the written Arabic of the Qur'anic era, it has become customary in western scholarship to refer to the language of the Qur'an as Classical Arabic and the modern language of the media and of formal speeches as Modern Standard Arabic. While Arabic is strongly associated with Islam (and is the language of salah), it is also spoken by Arab Christians, Oriental Jews, and indeed Iraqi Mandaeans; and, of course, the vast majority of the world's Muslims do not actually speak it; they only know some fixed phrases of Arabic, as used in Islamic prayer. www.moorpark.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Arabic_language   (1311 words)

Arabic language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) The expressions Arabic and Classical Arabic usually refer to al-luġatu-l-ʿarabīyatu-l-fuṣḥā (Literally: the pure Arabic language - اللغة العربية؛الفصحى) which is to Arabic speakers both the language of media across North Africa and the Middle East (from Morocco to Iraq) and the language of the Qur'an. Arabic is a Semitic language fairly closely related to for instance Hebrew language and the Aramaic language. The Arabic alphabet derives from the Aramaic script (which variety Nabataean or Syriac is a matter of scholarly dispute) which it bears a loose resemblance like of Coptic or Cyrillic script to Greek script. www.freeglossary.com /Arabic_language   (1364 words)

NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Hassaniya Arabic Hassaniya is a dialect of Arabic derived from the Arabic spoken by the Beni... Hassaniya is a dialect of Arabic derived from the Arabic spoken by the Hassaniya is a dialect of Arabic derived from the Arabic spoken by the Beni Hassan... www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hassaniya-Arabic   (272 words)

Arabic numerals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Arabic numerals (also called Hindu numerals or Indian numerals) are the most common set of symbols used to represent numbers. The numeral set known in English as 'Arabic numerals' is a positional base 10 numeral system with ten distinct symbols representing the 10 numerical digits. In a more developed form, the Arabic numeral system also uses a decimal marker (at first a mark over the ones digit but now more usually a decimal point or a decimal comma which separates the ones place from the tenths place), and also a symbol for “these digits repeat ad infinitum” (recur). www.warwick.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Arabic_numeral   (958 words)

NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Gum arabic The location of Sahel in Africa The Sahel (from Arabic ساحل, sahil, shore, border or coast of the Sahara desert) is the boundary zone in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the more fertile region to the south, known as the Sudan (not to be confused with the country... Gum arabic is the hardened sap of the Acacia senegal tree, which is found in the swath of arid lands extending from Senegal on the west coast of Africa all the way to Pakistan and India. Gum arabic is also used in sweeteners and as an additive in foods and beverages, as a thickener in liquids, including soft drinks, and in food flavorings. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gum-arabic   (1368 words)

Gum arabic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Gum arabic is a substance that is taken from two sub-Saharan species of the acacia tree. The gum is produced by the trees in question as a way of resealing the plant's bark in the event of damage -- a process called gummosis. Oddly, the connection between the latter country and Osama bin Laden brought the otherwise undistinguished gum to public consciousness in 2001, as an urban legend arose that bin Laden owned a significant fraction of the gum arabic production in the Sudan, and that therefore one should boycott products using it. www.encyclopedia-online.info /Gum_arabic   (295 words)

List of Islamic terms in Arabic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) The Qur'an is expressed in Arabic and traditionally Muslims deemed it untranslatable, though this view has changed somewhat in recent decades. Arabic numerals are what we use in English ("0", "1", "2",...). Some English words or phrases would translate very poorly into Arabic for cultural reasons, for instance the English word "crusade" would most likely be interpreted as meaning "genocide", and "infinite justice" would most likely be interpreted as meaning "divine judgement" - adl in Arabic implying Allah's justice. www.encyclopedia-online.info /List_of_Islamic_terms_in_Arabic   (1604 words)

Arabic_language Arabic (اللغة العربية; al-luġatu-l-ʻarabiyyatu, less formally, عربي ʻarabī) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. Literary Arabic, al-luġatu-l-ʻarabiyyatu-l-fuṣḥā (Literally: "the most eloquent Arabic language" — اللغة العربية الفصحى) refers both to the language of present-day media across North Africa and the Middle East and to the more articulate language of the Qur'an. While Arabic is strongly associated with Islam (and is the language of salah), it is also spoken by Arab Christians, Oriental (Mizraḥi) Jews, and smaller sects such as Iraqi Mandaeans. www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/ar/arabic_language.html   (2665 words)

Arabic Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) The expressions Arabic and Classical Arabic usually refer to ?al luGat ul?\\arabi:yat ulfus'X\\a: (Literally: the pure Arabic language - اللغة العربية؛الفصحى) which is, according to Arabic speakers, both the language of present-day media across North Africa and the Middle East (from Morocco to Iraq) and the language of the Qur'an. The Qur'an is expressed in Arabic and traditionally Muslims deem it impossible to translate in a way that would adequately reflect its exact meaning - indeed, until recently, some schools of thought maintained that it should not be translated at all. While Arabic is strongly associated with Islam (and is the language of salat), it is also spoken by Arab Christians, Oriental Jews, and indeed Iraqi Mandaeans; and, of course, the vast majority of the world's Muslims do not actually speak it; they only know some fixed phrases of Arabic, as used in Islamic prayer. www.wikiverse.org /arabic-language   (1339 words)

Press releases/English Wikipedia Publishes Millionth Article - Wikimedia Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, and has spawned sister projects, including a dictionary, a library of textbooks, a compendium of quotations, a news site, and a media repository. In all, over one hundred articles were contributed in the same second as Jordanhill railway station, as many editors waited anxiously for the opportunity to post the millionth article. The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an international non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. wikimediafoundation.org /wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_Publishes_Millionth_Article   (955 words)

Maghreb Arabic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Maghreb arabic is a dialect of Arabic spoken in the Maghreb, including Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya. Speakers of Maghreb Arabic call their language Derija or Darija, which means "dialect." Derija is characterized by many borrowings from the languages of the colonizers of North Africa, including France and Spain. It frequently combines French and Spanish roots with Arabic endings to form words; since it is not written, there is no standard and it is free to change quickly and to rapidly pick up new vocabulary from neighboring languages. www.bellgardens.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Maghreb_Arabic   (285 words)

Isam Bayazidi’s Blog » Blog Archive » 10000 articles in the Arabic Wikipedia The current active contributors in the Arabic wikipedia are the ones behind it’s success. Now, Although the arabic wikipedia could be considered rich and accurate in some fields, I think it is still far from being considered a resource. Now Arabic holds the ranking of 35 between all wikipedias when it comes to article count. isam.bayazidi.net /archives/2005/12/10000-articles-in-the-arabic-wikipedia   (318 words)

Modern_Standard_Arabic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Modern Standard Arabic is derived from Classical Arabic or ''Koranic Arabic'', the language of the Qur'an. Also, Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, the spoken language of Egypt, has gained in stature in the last 50-100 years, and texts of many sorts are written in it. Modern Standard Arabic shares most of its vocabulary, syntax and morphology with its parent language, Classical Arabic, but there are noticeable differences; these differences number fewer than one might expect, given the 1500-year separation between the two. q-basic.xodox.de /Modern_Standard_Arabic   (453 words)

Arabic The Arabic alphabet is an abjad, a term describing writing in which the vowels are not explicitly written; so the reader must know the language in order to restore them. The first example of a text in the Arabic alphabet appeared in 512 A.D. It wasn't until the 7th century that marks were added above and below the letters to differentiate them, the Aramaic model having fewer phonemes than the Arabic and in the early writings a single letter might represent several phonemes. A transliteration from Arabic must clearly show the characters which are not pronounced or which are pronounced as others in order to avoid being ambiguous; a transcription indicates only the pronunciation. www.foolswisdom.com /~sbett/arabic.htm   (949 words)

Talk:Wikipedia raster name - Meta Im partial to the sans-seriff look myself, but the face I used on the large grey wiki ball I like-- it has an ever so slight serif to it-- might be good to balance the Kanji, and Arabic feels with the Roman one-- make something original. For some scripts (like Arabic) there simply is no analogue to a book serif font, so if a book serif font is used for the logotype in roman script, then the arabic logotype will not be able to "match". If you don't think visual consistency from language to language is as important as having the logotype in roman script look a particular way, then feel free to make your own suggestions at 135-pixels width, and upload them. meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Talk:Wikipedia_raster_name   (1000 words)

Classical_Arabic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) '''Classical Arabic''' is the form of the Arabic language used in the Qur'an as well as in numerous literary texts from the same period. Modern Standard Arabic is a direct descendant from it, differing minimally in morphology and only to a small degree in its syntax and lexicon. Classical Arabic is one of the Semitic Languages, and therefore has many similarities in conjugation and pronunciation to Hebrew, Akkadian, Aramaic, and Maltese. q-basic.xodox.de /Classical_Arabic   (495 words)

Arabeyes Project - Projects Aim: to translate all required terms/strings to facilitate Arabic usage within the KDE environment. Aim: to be an umbrella project for all Mandriva Linux Arabic translation sub-projects. Aim: to bring forth Arabic support to all embedded QT applications. www.arabeyes.org /project.php   (231 words)

arabic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Arabs consider literary Arabic as the standard language and tend to view... Literary Arabic or classical Arabic is the official language of all Arab... Arabic speakers are forming Arabic meetups near you. www.hotvsnot.com /search?s=arabic   (254 words)

Najdi Arabic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Start the Najdi Arabic article or add a request for it. Look for Najdi Arabic in the Commons, our repository for free images, music, sound, and video. If you expected a page to be here, and it is not, the page may be invisible due to a delay in updating the database, or it may have been deleted. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Najdi_Arabic   (135 words)

Draft Report: Open Content in Arab Countries | Global Scan on Open (Collaborative) Content Projects Two features are characteristic of the Arabic corner of the Internet: First, religion has greater weight than anywhere else in the world, and second, Arab users are particularly eager to engage in discussion – not least of politics, religion, and sex. In both domains, a growing assertion of the individual as an active speaker and decision-maker, not merely a passive recipient of authoritative discourse, is apparent. The project is a pure volunteer project, but has been able to establish connections to NGOs and FOSS companies which allow access to their resources and their employees to contribute to the project during working hours. oc.openflows.org /Arab_Countries   (2141 words)

Technorati Tag: wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Special Projects Committee 20-05-2006 Quite recently I have been nominated as an advisor to the Special Projects Committee (SPCom wiki) of the... Cricket May 19th, 2006 by dfeig Having lived out of the US for quite a long time I really enjoy watching CNN and BBC in English to keep up with what... This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged wikipedia. www.technorati.com /tag/wikipedia   (451 words)

Arabic language resources Arabic is spoken on a daily basis in: Australia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, France, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands, Oman, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Yemen Arabic is a member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Arabic OUR GOAL IS TO: Increase awareness about Intellectual Property Rights by encouraging publishers of any work whether it be on paper or on the internet or on any other electronic media to: 1) put... mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Arabic.html   (1347 words)

Isam Bayazidi’s Blog » Blog Archive » Wikipedia Time Wiki is about making anyone able to do anything, complete freedom. Maybe it is the technological challenge facing those in the Arab world (I just don’t buy this excuse) or it could be the feeling of disgust and shame Arabs have toward their language. This entry was posted on Saturday, November 13th, 2004 at 4:50 pm and is filed under OSS and Linux, Internet and Technology. isam.bayazidi.net /archives/2004/11/wikipedia-time   (366 words)

[No title] I just read the news letter and was not too happy since Arabic did not even make it in the list of _considered_ languages to have sizable article count. I think arabic wikipedians should be urged to follow that style. A translation can be made to brief it in Arabic, but not a term-to-term translation, and legal text is not easy to be made. mail.wikipedia.org /pipermail/wikiar-l/2004-February.txt   (4017 words)

bt - Full Story Borrowed from the Hawaiian word for ‘quick,’ a “Wiki” is essentially a weblog that multiple or even an unlimited number of people can modify, with a framework geared towards swift edits. At the same time, the software tracks every change ever made to a page, which allows an equally quick return to past content in the case of vandalism or error. Ever since the advent of the printing press, a cheap and effective way to reproduce and distribute, authors have jealously defined and guarded their rights. www.businesstodayegypt.com /article.aspx?ArticleID=6207   (1132 words)

arabic wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) It has been mentioned already on this list some while ago: at http://ar.wikipedia.org an open content encyclopedia in arabic waits to be born. First, there are no arabs in the arabic wikipedia, only some people from the other projects willing to help with technical questions about the wiki, but they don't speak much arabic (I am a project member of the German wikipedia and quite interested in arabic culture, but my arabic is... I don't know much about how it should behave correctly, since I don't type much in arabic, so we were absolutely grateful for good, developer style bug reports (and hints how to fix the problems). lists.arabeyes.org /archives/general/2004/February/msg00023.html   (324 words)

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