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4 days ago · The term Egyptian Arabic is usually used synonymously with " Cairene Arabic ", which is technically a dialect of Egyptian Arabic. The country's native name, مصر Maṣr, is often used locally to refer to Cairo itself. As is the case with Parisian French, Cairene Arabic is by far the most prevalent dialect in the country.
5 days ago · Arabic language, Semitic language spoken in a large area including North Africa, most of the Arabian Peninsula, and other parts of the Middle East. (See also Afro-Asiatic languages.) Scholars have struggled to define Arabic as a language.
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4 days ago · Arwi language (a mixture of Arabic and Tamil) uses the Arabic script together with the addition of 13 letters. It is mainly used in Sri Lanka and the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu for religious purposes. Arwi language is the language of Tamil Muslims. Arabi Malayalam is Malayalam written in the Arabic script.
6 days ago · Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. Arabic is a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family that originated in the Arabian Peninsula.
5 days ago · Arab, one whose native language is Arabic. In modern usage, it embraces any of the Arabic-speaking peoples living in the vast region from Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast of Africa, to southwestern Iran, including the entire Maghrib of North Africa, Egypt and Sudan, the Arabian Peninsula, and Syria and Iraq.
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5 days ago · z man nfr good. MASC z nfr man good.MASC "[the] good man" zt woman nfrt good. FEM zt nfrt woman good.FEM "[the] good woman" Attributive adjectives in phrases are after the nouns they modify: nṯr ꜥꜣ ("[the] great god"). However, when they are used independently as a predicate in an adjectival phrase, as ꜥꜣ nṯr ("[the] god [is] great", lit. "great [is the] god"), adjectives precede ...
May 14, 2024 · AlJazem (Online): Arabic-English-Arabic dictionary developed by Encyclopædia Britannica; includes pronunciation guide and thesaurus; updated daily. Lane, Edward William. An Arabic-English lexicon derived from the best and the most copious eastern sources ...
