Modifier letter left half ring (redirect from ʿ)
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)...
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and more commonly, Arabic: عباية ʿabāyah, especially in Literary Arabic: عباءة ʿabā'ah; plural عبايات ʿabāyāt, عباءات ʿabā'āt), sometimes also called an...
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Arabic as عوار ʿawār, a defect, or anything defective or damaged, including partially spoiled merchandise; and عواري ʿawārī (also عوارة ʿawāra) = "of or...
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Obadiah (/oʊbəˈdaɪ.ə/; Hebrew: עֹבַדְיָה – ʿŌḇaḏyā or עֹבַדְיָהוּ – ʿŌḇaḏyāhū; "servant or slave of Yah"), also known as Abdias, is a biblical prophet...
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Ayin (also ayn or ain; transliterated ⟨ʿ⟩) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts, including Phoenician ʿayin 𐤏, Hebrew ʿayin ע, Aramaic ʿē...
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𐎓𐎁𐎄𐎍𐎁𐎛𐎚 (ʿAbdi-Labiʾti, lit. 'Servant of the Lioness'), the latter of which holds the same meaning as the personal names 𒁹𒀴𒀀𒅆𒅕𒋾 (ʿAbdi-ʿAširti)...
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ʿAṯtar, 𐎓𐎘𐎚𐎗 (ʿAṯtar), appears in the Baʿal Cycle. The Northwest Semitic feminine form of ʿAṯtar, the Great Goddess 𐎓𐎘𐎚𐎗𐎚 (ʿAṯtart), is often...
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Emblem Motto: الله الوطن الرئيس "God, Nation, President" Anthem: عيشي بلادي ʿĪshī Bilādī "Long Live My Country" Location of United Arab Emirates (green)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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]...
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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...
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inscriptions. During this period itself, Chemosh was identified with 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓 (ʿAštar), who was the Moabite adaptation of the North Arabian god ʿAṯtar, himself...
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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...
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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...
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Ammar (also spelled Amar; Arabic: عمّار, ʿAmmār) is an Arabic/Sanskrit masculine given name. Notable people with this name include: Ammar al-Basri, 9th...
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Ajami (Arabic: عجمي, ʿajamī) or Ajamiyya (Arabic: عجمية, ʿajamiyyah), which comes from the Arabic root for 'foreign' or 'stranger', is an Arabic-derived...
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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...
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"withdrawer"). Multiple suggested etymologies exist for Mercury (عُطَارِد, ʿUṭārid), Mars (اَلْمِرِّيخ, al-Mirrīkh), and Jupiter (المشتري, al-Muštarī)...
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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...
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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")....
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Anakim (Hebrew: עֲנָקִים ʿĂnāqīm) are mentioned in the Bible as descendants of Anak. According to the Old Testament, the Anakim lived in the southern...
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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...
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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...
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