The name " abjad " is derived from the Arabic word for alphabet.

The name " abjad " ( ) is derived from pronouncing the first letters of the Arabic alphabet in order.

Abdul is a common Arabic name component ( but never a name by itself ; additionally the ending-ul and the beginning Al-are redundant ), but Alhazred may allude to Hazard, a pun on the book's destructive and dangerous nature, or a reference to Lovecraft's ancestors by that name.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

Abdul Alhazred is not a real Arabic name, and seems to contain the Arabic definite article morpheme al-twice in a row ( anomalous in terms of Arabic grammar ).

In Arabic translations, his name has appeared as Abdullah ( عبدالله الحظرد ): Arabic حظر = " he fenced in ", " he prohibited ".

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

The name Ardipithecus ramidus stems mostly from the Afar language, in which Ardi means " ground / floor " ( borrowed from the Semitic root in either Amharic or Arabic ) and ramid means " root ".

The modern name for amber is thought to come from the Arabic word, ambar, meaning ambergris.

In Arabic, the name ' Abd Allah ' means " servant of Allah ".

Arabic numerals is the conventional name for the entire family of related systems of Arabic and Indian numerals.

The name of the group is derived from the Arabic ابو, abu (" father of ") and sayyaf (" Swordsmith ").

The Latin name Aelia is the source of the Arabic term Iliyā ' ( إلياء ), an early Islamic name for Jerusalem.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

The historical order was abandoned in Runic and Arabic, although Arabic retains the traditional " abjadi order " for numbering.

Abjads differ from abugidas, another category invented by Daniels, in that in abjads, the vowel sound is implied by phonology, and where vowel marks exist for the system, such as nikkud for Hebrew and harakāt for Arabic, their use is optional and not the dominant ( or literate ) form.

However, most modern abjads, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic and Avestan, are " impure " abjads, that is, they also contain symbols for some of the vowel phonemes.

The word used in the Arabic language for allegiance is bay ' at ( Arabic: بيعة ), which means " taking hand ".

By contrast, the cursive developed out of the Nabataean alphabet in the same period soon became the standard for writing Arabic, evolving into the Arabic alphabet as it stood by the time of the early spread of Islam.

The term " Almoravid " comes from the Arabic " al-Murabitun " () which is the plural form of " al-Murabit " literally meaning " One who is tying " but figuratively means " one who is ready for battle at a fortress ".

Contemporaries frequently referred to them as the al-mulathimun (" the veiled ones ", from litham, Arabic for " veil ").

Although the phrase " Arabic numeral " is frequently capitalized, it is sometimes written in lower case: for instance, in its entry in the Oxford English dictionary.

( See G. F. Hill, The Development of Arabic Numerals in Europe for more examples.

) In central Europe, the King of Hungary Ladislaus the Posthumous, started the use of Arabic numerals, which appear for the first time in a royal document of 1456.

The Arabic numeral glyphs 0-9 are encoded in ASCII and UTF-8 at positions 0x30 to 0x39, matching up with the second hex-digit for convenience:

It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur ( Akkadian: ; Aramaic: ; Hebrew: ; Arabic: ).

Sidon ( whose name in classical Arabic is: ص َ ي ْ دون ْ ( Saydoon )) has been inhabited since very early in prehistory.

The city's name comes from Medina ( Arabic for city ) and Sidonia ( of Sidon ), meaning " City of Sidon ".

Abadan (, Arabic: عبادان, also Romanized as Ābādān ) is a city in and the capital of Abadan County, Khuzestan Province, Iran.

The original Arabic name of Crete was Iqrīṭiš ( < ( της ) Κρήτης ), but after the Emirate of Crete's establishment of its new capital at ربض الخندق Rabḍ al-ḫandaq ( modern Iraklion ), both the city and the island became known as Χάνδαξ ( Khandhax ) or Χάνδακας ( Khandhakas ), which gave Latin and Venetian Candia, from which French Candie and English Candy or Candia.

It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur ( Akkadian: ; Aramaic: ; Hebrew: ; Arabic: ).

Later he would visit Mogadishu, the then pre-eminent city of the " Land of the Berbers " ( بلد البربر Balad al-Barbar, the medieval Arabic term for the Horn of Africa ).

He added that the city was ruled by a Somali Sultan, originally from Berbera in northern Somalia, who spoke both Somali ( referred to as Mogadishan, the Benadir dialect of Somali ) and Arabic with equal fluency.

" Mecca " is the familiar form of the English transliteration for the Arabic name of the city, and the word has additionally come to be used to refer to any place that draws large numbers of people.

For many years, Mogadishu stood as the pre-eminent city in the بلاد البربر, Bilad-al-Barbar (" Land of the Berbers "), which was the medieval Arabic term for the Horn of Africa.

The most recent spoken mother tongue of the Samaritans was Arabic, as it is for those in the West Bank city of Nablus.

Ur is considered by many to be the city of Ur Kasdim mentioned in the Book of Genesis ( Biblical Hebrew ) as the birthplace of the Hebrew patriarch Abram ( Abraham ; Aramaic: Oraham, Arabic: Ibrahim ), traditionally believed to be sometime in the 2nd millennium BC.

There is also a possible fifth city ascribed to them by a later Arabic source: Baiyara ( perhaps modern Montoro ).

* The city of Florence bans the use of Arabic numerals for commerce, allowing only Roman numerals.

The Arabic word madinah simply means " city.

The first mention of the city, under its old Arabic name Yathrib, dates to the 6th century BC.

Pagan Yathrib was renamed Medina from " Madinat al-Nabi " (" city of the Prophet " in Arabic ) in honor of Muhammad's prophethood and death there.

Antioch on the Orontes (; Anṭiokia ; Hebrew: אנטיוכיה, antiyokhya ; ; Antiok ; ; Arabic: انطاکیه, Anṭākiya ; also Syrian Antioch ) was an ancient city on the eastern side of the Orontes River.

Arab-Jewish relations were good, and Alter Rivlin, who spoke Arabic and Syrian-Aramaic, was appointed Jewish representative to the city council.

Petra ( Greek " πέτρα " ( petra ), meaning stone ; Arabic: البتراء, Al-Batrāʾ ) is a historical and archaeological city in the Jordanian governorate of Ma ' an that is famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit system.

It is renowned as the site of the ancient Greek city of Akragas ( also known as Acragas ( Ἀκράγας ) in Greek, Agrigentum in Latin and Kirkent or Jirjent in Arabic ), one of the leading cities of Magna Graecia during the golden age of Ancient Greece.

Goliath (; Arabic: جالوت, Ǧālūt, جليات Ǧulyāt ) or Goliath of Gath ( one of five city states of the Philistines ) is a figure in the Hebrew Bible ( Christian Old Testament ).

Nouakchott ( Arabic: or ( believed translation from Berber " The place of the winds ", Nawākšūṭ ) is the capital and by far the largest city of Mauritania.

In this period the Arabic name of the city was changed into Greek Chania.

Arabic names also contain surnames that denote the city of origin, for example, in cases of Saddam Hussein al Tikriti, meaning Saddam Hussein of Tikrit, a city in Iraq.

This is a folk etymology, confusing Latin granatus with the name of the Spanish city of Granada, which derives from Arabic.