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It has Arabic to English translations and English to Arabic, as well as a significant quantity of technical terminology. It is useful to translators as its search results are given in context. Almaany offers correspondent meanings for Arabic terms with semantically similar words and is widely used in Arabic language research.
rook (chess), roc (mythology) رُخّ rukhkh [ruxː] ( listen ⓘ ), (1) the rook piece in the game of chess, (2) a mythological bird in the 1001 Arabian Nights tales. The Arabic dictionary Lisan al-Arab completed in 1290 said the chess-piece name rukhkh came from Persian; crossref check.
tanbur, tanbura, tambur, tambura, tambouras, tamburica, tembûr. These are all long-necked plucked string musical instruments. From Arabic طنبور ṭunbūr (also ṭanbūr) [tˤanbuːr] ( listen ⓘ ), long-necked plucked string instrument. The word occurs early and often in medieval Arabic.
Reverso has been active since 1998, with the aim of providing online translation and linguistic tools to corporate and mass markets. [3] [4] In 2013 it released Reverso Context, a bilingual dictionary tool based on big data and machine learning algorithms. [5] In 2016 Reverso acquired Fleex, a service for learning English via subtitled movies.
قسمة qisma [qisma] ( listen ⓘ ), destinity, fate. Kismet was borrowed into English via Turkish from the original Arabic word qisma which means portion or lot. [6] kohl (cosmetics) كحل kohl [kuħl] ( listen ⓘ ), finely powdered galena , stibnite, and similar sooty-colored powder used for eye-shadow, eye-liner, and mascara.
The number of distinct senses that are listed in Wiktionary is shown in the polysemy column. For example, "out" can refer to an escape, a removal from play in baseball, or any of 36 other concepts. On average, each word in the list has 15.38 senses. The sense count does not include the use of terms in phrasal verbs such as "put out" (as in ...
The word with that meaning is quite common in mid-medieval Arabic. Spelled "caraway" in English in the 1390s in a cookery book. The English word came from Arabic via medieval Romance languages. carob خرّوب kharrūb [xrːwb] (listen ⓘ), carob. Carob beans and carob pods were consumed in the Mediterranean area from ancient times, and had ...
To qualify for this list, a word must be reported in etymology dictionaries as having descended from Arabic. A handful of dictionaries have been used as the source for the list. [1] Words associated with the Islamic religion are omitted; for Islamic words, see Glossary of Islam. Archaic and rare words are also omitted.