Alexandria-based graphic designer Mahmoud Tammam has taken 40 Arabic words and transformed them to match their meanings. The beautifully minimalistic project uses the arches, dots, and curves of ...

Diacritics are an integral part of Arabic texts as they are placed below, above, and occasionally even through letters to help in pronouncing words correctly and grasping their meanings.

Click here to see 30 everyday English words you didn’t know came from Arabic Many of the English words in astronomy and other sciences are derived from Arabic — for instance, zenith, acme ...

The word and its reception have evolved over time Arabic words are often stigmatized, he said, associated with violence and terrorism when they don't inherently carry those meanings.

So right this way for 40 Arabic baby girl names and their meanings, courtesy of BabyNames.net. 145 Most Popular Baby Names of 2020 1. Aaliyah: exalted, sublime 2. Aisha: one who is alive 3.

Yes, thanks to the traffic of goods and culture around the Mediterranean throughout history, English has many common words that it got from Arabic. It didn't borrow all of them directly; they ...

Sally McConnell-Ginet, Words in the World: How and Why Meanings Can Matter, Language, Vol. 84, No. 3 (Sep., 2008), pp. 497-527 ...