Marlene ( surname: Adamo ), 25, a Brazilian divorcee who learned the dance from Arabic friends in Paris, now lives on Manhattan's West Side, is about the best belly dancer working the Casbah, loves it so much that she dances on her day off.

It is possible to identify the test procedure completely with a code consisting of a Roman Numeral, a letter, and an Arabic number.

But, again, we have no real evidence on this from that quarter until the close of the ninth century A.D., when an Arabic scholar, Tabit Ibn Korra ( 836-901 ) is said to have discussed the magic square of three.

The style is characterized by specific rhythms and of Qacidate ( Popular poems ) in Arabic dialect that are long poems from the Algerian heritage.

The most widely spoken Afroasiatic language is Arabic ( including all its colloquial varieties ), with 230 million native speakers, spoken mostly in the Middle East and North Africa.

Arabic is also widely used, sometimes as an abjad ( as with Urdu and Persian ) and sometimes as a complete alphabet ( as with Kurdish and Uyghur ).

The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

For example, Sorani Kurdish is written in the Arabic script, which is normally an abjad.

) 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.

Adobe (, ; Arabic: الطوب ) is a natural building material made from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or organic material ( sticks, straw, and / or manure ), which the builders shape into bricks ( using frames ) and dry in the sun.

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.

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.

It is unclear whether the Arabic abjad was derived from Nabatean or Syriac.

" the Arabic " An example of the Arabic script, which is an impure abjad.

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 ".

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 ).

There are two official languages in Djibouti: Arabic ( Afro-Asiatic ) and French ( Indo-European ).

The Emperor pressured Eritrea ’ s elected chief executive to resign, made Amharic the official language in place of Arabic and Tigrinya, terminated the use of the Eritrean flag, imposed censorship, and moved many businesses out of Eritrea.

Although it was the primary language since colonial rule, Italian greatly declined under the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, who expelled the Italian Libyan population and made Arabic became the sole official language of the country.

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

The Lebanese Armed Forces ( LAF ) ( Arabic: القوات المسلحة اللبنانية | Al-Quwwāt al-Musallaḥa al-Lubnāniyya ) or Forces Armées Libanaises in French, also known as the Lebanese Army according to its official Website ( Arabic: الجيش اللبناني or " Armée libanaise " in French, is the military of the Republic of Lebanon.

Zaydan had critical influence on acceptance of a modernized version of the Quranic Arabic language as the universal written and official language throughout the Arab world, instead of adoption of local dialects in the various countries.

Arabic is the official language and English is the lingua franca of business.

Arabic is the official, and most widely spoken, language.

The literary and official language during the Ottoman Empire period ( c. 1299 – 1922 ) is termed Ottoman Turkish, which was a mixture of Turkish, Persian, and Arabic that differed considerably and was largely unintelligible to the period's everyday Turkish known as kaba Türkçe or " rough Turkish ", spoken by the less-educated lower and also rural members of society, which was much purer and which is the basis of the modern Turkish language.

The Arabic language in its standard variety is the official language in the entire territory.

Modern Standard Arabic is the official language of Western Sahara and Morocco.

In Lebanon and Morocco the official language is Arabic, but an additional de facto language is French.

Only English and French were the Security Council's working languages ( Arabic, Russian, Spanish and Chinese were official but not the working languages ).

The proposed reforms would give the prime minister and the parliament more executive authority, and would make Berber an official language in Morocco, together with Arabic.

Although Arabic is the official language of the country, English, Urdu, Hindi, Tagalog, Persian and many other languages are widely spoken and understood.

* http :// www. wifaq. com / Iraqi National Accord official website ( Arabic )

Uzbek ( Oʻzbek tili or Oʻzbekcha in Latin script, Ўзбек тили or Ўзбекча in Cyrillic script ; اوزبیک تیلی or اوزبیکچه in Arabic script ) is a Turkic language and the official language of Uzbekistan.

In Iraq however, triple language programmes are, like in Lebanon and Syria, normal, except rather than using French, Kurdish is taught alongside Arabic and English due to Iraq's considerably sized Kurdish minority in the north, and bilingual official language policy regarding Kurdish.

Tigrinya ( along with Arabic ) was one of Eritrea's official languages during its short-lived federation with Ethiopia ; in 1958 it was replaced with Amharic prior to its annexation.

Mauritania's official language is Arabic ; French is used as a lingua franca in addition to Wolof and Arabic.

There are six official languages: Arabic, English, Spanish, Russian, French, and Chinese.

The official languages of the organisation are Arabic, English and French.

# Making Arabic the official language of government across the entire empire,