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Greek Muslims, also known as Grecophone Muslims, [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] are Muslims of Greek ethnic origin whose adoption of Islam (and often the Turkish language and identity) dates to the period of Ottoman rule in the southern Balkans.
Kural translations by language. v. t. e. The Graeco-Arabic translation movement was a large, well-funded, and sustained effort responsible for translating a significant volume of secular Greek texts into Arabic. [1] The translation movement took place in Baghdad from the mid-eighth century to the late tenth century.
The Septuagint ( / ˈsɛptjuədʒɪnt / SEP-tew-ə-jint ), [1] sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy ( Ancient Greek: Ἡ μετάφρασις τῶν Ἑβδομήκοντα, romanized : Hē metáphrasis tôn Hebdomḗkonta ), and often abbreviated as LXX, [2] is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Tanakh from the original Hebrew. [3] [4 ...
Almah ( עַלְמָה ‘almā, plural: עֲלָמוֹת ‘ălāmōṯ ), from a root implying the vigour of puberty, is a Hebrew word meaning a young woman ripe for marriage. [1] Despite its importance to the account of the virgin birth of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew, Marvin Alan Sweeney states that scholars agree that it refers ...
It is also called the University of Thessaloniki Dictionary, [3] and is known to the public as Triantafyllidis Dictionary (Λεξικό Τριανταφυλλίδη). It is searchable online at Portal for the Greek Language. It includes pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet (with slight alterations), and in Greek: definitions ...
Babiniotis Dictionary. The Dictionary of Modern Greek ( Greek: Λεξικό της Νέας Ελληνικής Γλώσσας, ΛΝΕΓ ), more commonly known as Babiniotis Dictionary (Λεξικό Μπαμπινιώτη), is a well-known dictionary of Modern Greek published in Greece by Lexicology Centre and supervised by Greek linguist ...
Mycenaean Greek is the most ancient attested form of the Greek language, on the Greek mainland and Crete in Mycenaean Greece (16th to 12th centuries BC), before the hypothesised Dorian invasion, often cited as the terminus ad quem for the introduction of the Greek language to Greece. [citation needed] The language is preserved in inscriptions in Linear B, a script first attested on Crete ...
Symmachus (translator) Symmachus ( / ˈsɪməkəs /; Greek: Σύμμαχος "ally"; fl. late 2nd century) was a writer who translated the Old Testament into Greek. His translation was included by Origen in his Hexapla and Tetrapla, which compared various versions of the Old Testament side by side with the Septuagint.