The modifier letter left half ring ⟨ʿ⟩ is a character of the Unicode Spacing Modifier Letters range (although it is not a modifier but a standalone grapheme)...

and more commonly, Arabic: عباية ʿabāyah, especially in Literary Arabic: عباءة ʿabā'ah; plural عبايات ʿabāyāt, عباءات ʿabā'āt), sometimes also called an...

Arabic as عوار ʿawār, a defect, or anything defective or damaged, including partially spoiled merchandise; and عواري ʿawārī (also عوارة ʿawāra) = "of or...

Obadiah (/oʊbəˈdaɪ.ə/; Hebrew: עֹבַדְיָה – ʿŌḇaḏyā or עֹבַדְיָהוּ‎ – ʿŌḇaḏyāhū; "servant or slave of Yah"), also known as Abdias, is a biblical prophet...

Ayin (also ayn or ain; transliterated ⟨ʿ⟩) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts, including Phoenician ʿayin 𐤏, Hebrew ʿayin ע‎, Aramaic ʿē...

𐎓𐎁𐎄𐎍𐎁𐎛𐎚 (ʿAbdi-Labiʾti, lit. 'Servant of the Lioness'), the latter of which holds the same meaning as the personal names 𒁹𒀴𒀀𒅆𒅕𒋾 (ʿAbdi-ʿAširti)...

ʿAṯtar, 𐎓𐎘𐎚𐎗 (ʿAṯtar), appears in the Baʿal Cycle. The Northwest Semitic feminine form of ʿAṯtar, the Great Goddess 𐎓𐎘𐎚𐎗𐎚 (ʿAṯtart), is often...

Emblem Motto: الله الوطن الرئيس "God, Nation, President" Anthem: عيشي بلادي ʿĪshī Bilādī "Long Live My Country" Location of United Arab Emirates (green)...

assimilation of the proto-Semitic غ ghayin with ع ʿayin in some languages. In Hebrew the word ערב‎ ʿarav thus has the same triconsonantal root as the root...

transliterated as Abdal, Abdel, Abdil, Abdol, Abdool, or Abdoul; Arabic: عبد ال, ʿAbd al-) is the most frequent transliteration of the combination of the Arabic...

l t ʿ š [ ] w ʿ b d ʾ t 2 š p ṭ [?] b w ʾ l m [ ] b/ʾ l(?) ṭ 3 g/b/ʾ? [l?] b ʿ l? l g? ... 4 ʾ[ ] m w n q m? y ḥ/s d m l k p/g 5 ʾ/s? r/q m/ṣ/n ʿ b/ʾ...

そん ごくう Katakana ソンゴクウ Indonesian name Indonesian Sun Go Kong Khmer name Khmer ស៊ុន អ៊ូខុង UNGEGN: Sŭn Ukhŏng ALA-LC: S′un ʿ′ūkhung IPA: [sun ʔuːkʰoŋ]...

lower-case letter glottal stop ⟨ɂ⟩. U+02C1 is a typographic alternative to ⟨ʿ⟩ (U+02BF ʿ MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING); which is used to transliterate the Semitic...

inscriptions. During this period itself, Chemosh was identified with 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓‎ (ʿAštar), who was the Moabite adaptation of the North Arabian god ʿAṯtar, himself...

Eid al-Fitr (عيد الفطر ʿĪd al-Fiṭr, "Feast of Breaking the Fast"), marks the end of the month of Ramadan Eid al-Adha (عيد الأضحى ʿĪd al-ʾAḍḥā, "Feast of...

root עקב ʿqb meaning "to follow, to be behind" but also "to supplant, circumvent, assail, overreach", or from the word for "heel", עֲקֵב ʿaqeb. It can...

Ammar (also spelled Amar; Arabic: عمّار, ʿAmmār) is an Arabic/Sanskrit masculine given name. Notable people with this name include: Ammar al-Basri, 9th...

Ajami (Arabic: عجمي‎, ʿajamī) or Ajamiyya (Arabic: عجمية‎, ʿajamiyyah), which comes from the Arabic root for 'foreign' or 'stranger', is an Arabic-derived...

Abd Manaf al-Mughirah ibn Qusai (Arabic: عبد مناف ٱلمغيرة بن قصي, ʿAbd Manāf al-Mughīrah ibn Quṣayy) was a Qurayshi and great-great-grandfather of the...

"withdrawer"). Multiple suggested etymologies exist for Mercury (عُطَارِد, ʿUṭārid), Mars (اَلْمِرِّيخ, al-Mirrīkh), and Jupiter (المشتري, al-Muštarī)...

alluvial plain of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. As an Arabic word, عراق ʿirāq means "hem", "shore", "bank", or "edge", so that the name by folk etymology...

Kalema at Qibla of the Mosque of Ibn Tulun in Cairo, Egypt, displaying the phrase Ali-un-Waliullah (علي ولي الله: "ʿAlī is the Wali (custodian) of God")....

(as does Christian Arabic يسوع yasūʿ), while the Muslim Arabic form عيسى ʿīsā has the ʿayn at the beginning of the name. It is also similar in the vowels...

consonant, probably [ʕ], the sound represented by the cognate Arabic letter ع ʿayn. The use of this Phoenician letter for a vowel sound is due to the early...

ܐܲܠܝܼܨܵܐ‎, ʿṣāṣā ʾălīṣā or ܪܒ݂ܵܨܵܐ‎, rḇāṣā), (ܘܿ‎) The letter waw with a dot above it represents [o], transliterated as ō or o (called ܥܨܵܨܵܐ ܪܘܝܼܚܵܐ‎, ʿṣāṣā...

general لواء liwāʾ Ensign (more loosely "flag officer" or "banner") عميد ʿamīd Colonel (not to be confused with aqīd, the equivalent rank to a Commonwealth...

Abdulaziz bin Saud Al Saud (Arabic: عبد العزيز بن سعود آل سعود ʿAbd al ʿAzīz ibn Suʿūd Āl Suʿūd; born 4 November 1983) is a Saudi royal who has been the...

Anakim (Hebrew: עֲנָקִים ʿĂnāqīm) are mentioned in the Bible as descendants of Anak. According to the Old Testament, the Anakim lived in the southern...

Achbor (Hebrew: עַכְבּוֹר ʿAḵbōr) is a name that means "gnawing" and is, by extension, used as the word for "mouse". There are at least two persons by...

Ajman (Arabic: عجمان 'Aǧmān; Gulf Arabic: عيمان ʿYmān) is the capital of the emirate of Ajman in the United Arab Emirates. It is the fifth-largest city...