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The bird meaning for Arabic rukhkh may have come from Persian too. But not from the same word. All available evidence supports the view that the two meanings of Arabic rukhkh sprang from two independent and different roots. The chess rook is in French from about 1150 onward spelled as roc. S sabkha (landform)
Contronym. A contronym is a word with two opposite meanings; such a word is also known as an antagonym, autoantonym, contranym, or Janus word. [1] [2] For example, the word cleave can mean "to cut apart" or "to bind together". This feature is also called enantiosemy, [3] [4] enantionymy ( enantio- means "opposite"), antilogy or autoantonymy.
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").
Halal (/ h ə ˈ l ɑː l /; [1] Arabic: حلال ḥalāl [ħæˈlæːl]) is an Arabic word that translates to ' permissible ' in English. In the Quran, the term halal is contrasted with the term haram (' forbidden ').
Al-Masih ad-Dajjal. Dar al-hijra. Darul uloom. Dawah. Day of Arafah. Day of Sorrow. Despondence in Islam. Dhikr. Dhu al-Hijjah.
Arabic, like all languages, contains words whose meanings differ across various contexts. Arabic is written in its own alphabet, with letters, symbols, and orthographic conventions that do not have exact equivalents in the Latin alphabet (see Arabic alphabet).
Haram (/ h ə ˈ r ɑː m, h æ ˈ-, h ɑː ˈ-,-ˈ r æ m /; [1] [2] Arabic: حَرَام ḥarām [ħɑˈrɑːm]) is an Arabic term meaning 'forbidden'. [3]: 471 This may refer to either something sacred to which access is not allowed to the people who are not in a state of purity or who are not initiated into the sacred knowledge; or, in direct contrast, to an evil and thus "sinful action ...
Usul al-Fiqh. In Islam, bidʿah ( Arabic: بدعة [ˈbɪdʕæ], lit. 'innovation') refers to innovation in religious matters. [ 1] Linguistically, the term means "innovation, novelty, heretical doctrine, heresy ". [ 2] Despite its common use in Muslim texts, the term is not found in the Qur'an. In classical Arabic literature ( Arabic: أدب ...