Arabic is spoken by more than 400 million people. Can you recognise these Arabic words that made their way into English?

A surprising number of common English food and beverage words have Arabic backgrounds. Spanish absorbed many Arabic words during the centuries that the Moors occupied the Iberian Peninsula, 711 to ...

IT is considered quite normal for languages to borrow words from other languages. When a language takes words from other languages, these “new arrivals” are usually called borrowings or loan words.

While the integration of Arab migrants sparks ongoing debates, one thing is for sure: language-wise, Arabic is well rooted in Germany. Both English and German have many common words that stem from the ...

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I don't speak Arabic -- though I recently ordered the beginner module from Rosetta Stone which still sits in its wrapper on my desk shelf. (I am in the Arab world a lot however and learning more each ...

Scholars, researchers, and editors who contributed to the completion of the Doha Historical Dictionary of the Arabic Language have ...

On Hindi Diwas, Indian Consulate had invited them to share common words in Arabic, Hindi Also In This Package Shelby GT 500: The most powerful Mustang reaches UAE! IPL in UAE: CPL stars land in Dubai ...

A café might be the epitome of Frenchness, but the word itself comes from Arabic. Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP If you're speaking French on a daily basis, chances are that you are actually using ...

Meta‘s oversight board says it will review the moderation of the Arabic word “shaheed”, which means “martyr” in English, because it accounts for more content removals on the company’s platforms than ...