In Persian, Greek, Maltese, Turkic and Levantine Arabic as well as southern Italian dialects such as Sicilian, a bare dental click accompanied by tipping the head upwards signifies " no ".

English ( official ), Jamaican Patois, Levantine Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish.

Currently, a dialect of Levantine Arabic, Cypriot Maronite Arabic, is the most-spoken minority language in Cyprus.

In some Levantine countries, and Assyrian, the condiment za ' atar ( Arabic for thyme ) contains thyme as a vital ingredient.

Baʿal ul bayt in modern Levantine Arabic is widely used to mean the head of the household, literally ' Master of the House ' and has a somewhat jocular, semi-mocking connotation.

In modern Levantine Arabic, the word serves as an adjective describing farming that relies only on rainwater as a source of irrigation.

Tammuz is the month of July in Iraqi Arabic and Levantine Arabic ( see Arabic names of calendar months ), and references to Tammuz appear in Arabic literature from the 9th to 11th centuries AD.

In most North African and some Levantine varieties of Arabic, verbs are negated by placing the circumfix ma-- š around the verb together with all its prefixes and suffixed direct-and indirect-object pronouns.

In Levantine Arabic dialects and some other Arabic dialects, people explicitly refer to Sanskrit as a " non-sense language ".

Levantine Arabic and Turkish both use a variant ( Aylul or Eylül ) as the name for September, reflecting the common ancestry of the Hebrew and Arabic languages.

In Levantine Arabic dialects, however, the last syllable is generally pronounced.

In Levantine Arabic ( Lebanon, Syria ) a similar wind is referred to as شلوق shlūq.

* Turkish Coffee-probably introduced from Levantine Arabic culture, coffee became central to Ottoman society-often accompanied with a Nargile ( Narguile / Hookkah ).

In this situation, Modern Hebrew is affected intensively by many foreign languages-through the years Modern Israeli Hebrew has borrowed many words from Aramaic, Yiddish, Ladino, Arabic ( mainly spoken Judeo-Arabic and various Levantine Arabic dialects ), German, Latin, Greek, Polish, Russian, English and other languages.

In the Arab Middle East and North Africa, colloquial Arabic dialects, most especially Levantine, Egyptian, and Maghreb dialects, often exhibit significant subtrata from other regional Semitic, Iranian, Turkic, and Berber languages as well as colonial European languages due to the regions ' long histories of indigenous multiculturalism as well as foreign imperialism.

Arak is usually mixed in approximately 1 / 3 arak and 2 / 3 water in a traditional Levantine water vessel called " Ibrik ", in Arabic " ﺇﺑﺮﻳﻖ "; then the mixture is poured in small ice filled cups, like in the picture.

The name Barcelona comes from the ancient Iberian Phoenician Barkeno, attested in an ancient coin inscription in Iberian script as Barkeno in Levantine Iberian script, in Ancient Greek sources as, Barkinṓn ; and in Latin as Barcino, Barcilonum and Barceno.

Mesolithic 1 ( Kebara culture ; 20 – 18, 000 BCE to 12, 150 BCE ) followed the Aurignacian or Levantine Upper Paleolithic throughout the Levant.

In 1752 a rigorous quarantine clause was introduced into an act regulating the Levantine trade ; and various arbitrary orders were issued during the next twenty years to meet the supposed danger of infection from the Baltics.

In April 1946, the last French officers were forced to leave Syria due to sustained resistance offensives ; the Levantine Forces then became the regular armed forces of the newly independent state and grew rapidly to about 12, 000 by the time of the 1948 Arab − Israeli War, the first of four Arab − Israeli wars between 1948 and 1986.

In Phoenician, as well as Hebrew, the Semitic root qdm signifies " the east ", the Levantine origin of " Kdm " himself, according to the Greek mythographers ; the equation of Kadmos with the Semitic qdm was traced to a publication of 1646 by R. B. Edwards.

In 1783 Lazaristes were appointed to take the place of the Jesuits in the Levantine and Chinese missions ; they still have some footing in China, and in 1874 their establishments throughout the Ottoman Empire numbered sixteen.

The region of Airolo, which was politically tied to the fate of the Levantine valley, was divided into four Degagne ; Madrano, Valle, Solario and Oro.

Tabbouleh ( tabūlah ; also tabouleh or tab ( b ) ouli ) is a Levantine Arab salad traditionally made of bulgur, tomatoes, finely chopped parsley, mint, onion and garlic, and seasoned with olive oil, lemon juice and salt, although there are various other variations such as using couscous instead of bulgur.

Besides the above-mentioned ethnic groups, there are also non-European Caucasians mostly of Levantine origine and East Asians, mostly Chinese and Japanese.

More typically the Fertile Crescent includes also the Levantine coast of the Mediterranean Sea, with Syria, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon and the West Bank.

The griffin — a similar creature but with an eagle's head rather than that of a king — has also been proposed as an origin, arising in Israelite culture as a result of Hittite usage of griffins ( rather than being depicted as aggressive beasts, Hittite depictions show them seated calmly, as if guarding ), and some have proposed that griffin may be cognate to cherubim, but Lammasu were significantly more important in Levantine culture, and thus more likely to be the origin.

Enamel was also sometimes used to decorate glass vessels during the Roman period, and there is evidence of this as early as the late Republican and early Imperial periods in the Levantine, Egypt, Britain and the Black Sea.

He also ruled Levantine territories outside Egypt.

It is also used for Levantine dishes such as tabbula, kishk, kibba, bitfun and the bulghur for pilafs.

Palestinian Arabic also shares some features with Egyptian, distinguishing it from the northern Levantine dialects:

He has also produced important manuals or editions of texts in Levantine Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Syriac, Uzbek, Luri, and Kurdish.

It also shares many traits with Levantine Arabic.

Also titled Judge Nahar (" Judge River "), he is also one of the ' ilhm ( Elohim ) or sons of El, the name given to the Levantine pantheon.

* Homos, an alternate spelling for hommus or hummus, a Levantine Arab food dip or spread made from chickpeas

When the United Kingdom took over the southern portion of Ottoman Syria in the aftermath of the First World War, some of the new rulers adapted the term " Levantine " pejoratively to refer to inhabitants of mixed Arab and European descent and to Europeans ( usually French, Italian or Greek ) who had assimilated and adopted local dress and customs.

Shawarma () is a Levantine Arab meat preparation, where lamb, goat, chicken, turkey, beef, veal, or mixed meats are placed on a spit ( commonly a vertical spit in restaurants ), and may be grilled for as long as a day.

In the frame of the general diglossia status of the Arab world, Levantine Arabic is used for daily oral use, while most of the written and official documents and media use Modern Standard Arabic.

Arab cuisine is defined as the various regional cuisines spanning the Arab world, from Tunisia to Saudi Arabia, and incorporating the Levantine, Egyptian, and other traditions.

His main influences are Pink Floyd, Traffic, Jimmy Smith, Eastern Mediterranean music, Levantine, and Central Asian cultures and music.

The main elements of the style are microtonal properties created on authentic Levantine scales, electronically produced instrument timbres and Western music.

Its rites and ceremonies are both Hindu and Jewish, as well as Levantine Christian, in origin.

The roughly 26 million inhabitants of Syria are an overall indigenous Levantine people.

An important part of Taiwanese cuisine are xiaochi, substantial snacks along the lines of Spanish tapas or Levantine meze.

These are the Egyptians, the Levantine peoples or " Asiatics ", the " Nubians " and the " fair-skinned Libyans ".

The 18th-century origins of verbunkos are not well known, but probably include old dances like the swine-herd dance and the Hajduk dance, as well as elements of Balkan, Slavic and Levantine music, and the cultured music of Italy and Vienna, all filtered through the Roma performers.

The styles of Iberian sculpture are divided geographically into Levantine, Central, Southern, and Western groups, of which the Levantine group displays the most Greek influence.

There are noticeable differences between Palestinian Arabic and other forms of Levantine Arabic such as Syrian Arabic and Lebanese Arabic.

Archaeological remains are located in the Levantine and upper Mesopotamian region of the Fertile Crescent.

On the basis of the criterion of mutual intelligibility, Levantine Arabic could be regarded as a self standing language ( with different variants or dialects as explained below ), as distinct from other members of the Arabic language family such as Egyptian Arabic, Maghrebi Arabic or Peninsular Arabic, in the same way as French, Spanish and Romanian are all descended from Latin but are separate languages within the family of Romance languages.

In Levantine Arabic, by contrast, there are distinct " a " and " e " sounds, and these two vowels are distinguished in both the Palestinian and the Tiberian notations.

He identifies a Steppe Tradition of Scythian bows with working tips, which lasted, in Europe, until the arrival of the Huns, and a Near East or Levantine tradition with siyahs, possibly introduced by the Parni as siyahs are found in Sassanid but not Achaemenid contexts.

Lebanese Arabic is universally spoken while food, music, and literature are deep-rooted “ in wider Mediterranean and Levantine norms ”.

In Levantine cuisine, a variety of dishes made with burghul and minced lamb are called kibbeh.

The four most important reminders of the Levantine heritage still intact in Karşıyaka are the Alliotti, Penetti, Van Der Zee, and Löhner houses.