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.

The etymology of feodum is complex with multiple theories, some suggesting a Germanic origin ( the most widely held view ) and others suggesting an Arabic origin.

InDesign supports Unicode character encoding and there is a special Middle East version supporting complex text layout for Arabic and Hebrew types of complex script.

Though it would be incorrect to call it a modal system, the Arabic system is more complex than that of the Ancient Greek harmoniai.

This factor is made more complex by the fact that the usage of words has changed a great deal between classical and modern Arabic.

Although Scribus supports Unicode character encoding, it currently does not properly support complex script rendering and so cannot be used with Unicode text for languages written with Arabic, Hebrew, Indic and South East Asian writing systems.

The zellige tradition of Arabic North Africa uses small coloured tiles of various shapes to make very complex geometric patterns.

Text rendering is based on the Pango library, which allows Inkscape to support several complex scripts including Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Tibetan, etc.

She uses many features of Arabic music in her compositions, including the use of maqamat, with complex microtonic intonation, combined with traditional Arabic, Western classical and modern instrumentation.

In the Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic alphabets, many or all letters in a word are connected, sometimes making a word one single complex stroke.

Their curriculum began with memorization of the Arabic alphabet and the later, shorter suras of the Qur ' an ; if a student was sufficiently interested or apt, it progressed to law ( fiqh ), theology, Arabic grammar ( usually taught with al-Ajurrumi's famous summary ), mathematics ( mainly as it pertained to the complex legal system of inheritance distribution ), and sometimes astronomy.

His first two writings rank among the most complex in all of Arabic fiction at that time.

Graham's complex finder-picking style ( epitomised by his landmark composition " Anji "), his reputed introduction of the " Open D " tuning to British folk guitarists and his groundbreaking incorporations of Arabic and Indian inflections into his playing influenced many of his contemporaries, including Bert Jansch, Jimmy Page, Donovan and Ray Davies, all of whom have acknowledged him as an important influence.

The rules governing the jussive in Arabic are somewhat complex.

It is related to the Arabic turba, which can also mean a mausoleum, but more often a funerary complex, or a plot in a cemetery.

It is appreciated by the ulema for the doctrinal soundness of its author, for its complete coverage of Bukhari ’ s material, its mastery of the relevant Arabic sciences, the wisdom it shows in drawing lessons ( fawa ’ id ) from the hadiths it expounds, and its skill in resolving complex disputes over variant readings.

Malkata ( or Malqata ), meaning the place where things are picked up in Arabic, is the site of an Ancient Egyptian palace complex built by the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep III.

Many of the methods highlighted can also be used for non-Indic complex scripts such as Arabic.

The zero-width joiner ( ZWJ ) is a non-printing character used in the computerized typesetting of some complex scripts, such as the Arabic script or any of the Indic scripts.

This mechanism allows a program to recognize bidirectional orientation, character shaping ( mainly of Arabic characters ), and other complex encoding information.

Since it reflects spoken language, it does not use the positional system as in Arabic numerals, in the same way that spelling out numbers in English does not.

The Arabic name of Gamma Gruis ( al-dhanab, " the tail ") reflects this origins.

Köstenberger states that many modern scholars believe that the Arabic version reflects the state of Josephus ' original text before it was subject to Christian interpolation.

It clearly reflects Arabic architectural influences.

The wide diversity of patterns reflects a variety of influences, ranging from indigenous designs, Arabic calligraphy, European bouquets and Chinese phoenixes to Japanese cherry blossoms and Indian or Persian peacocks.

Note that the Latin alphabet spelling " ghirsh " rather than " qirsh " reflects the pronunciation in Saudi Arabia, while in the Arabic script the spelling was the same as used elsewhere, قرش.

( This reflects the difference between the Sana ' ani and Adeni dialects of Yemeni Arabic.

The adoption of this term, like many other Arabic ones, reflects the fact that, at least in the early phases of the Reconquista, Muslim society in the Iberian Peninsula imparted great influence on the Christian one.

The difference between Thomism and Scotism could be expressed by saying that, while both derive from Arabic Neoplatonized Aristotelianism, Thomism is closer to the orthodox Aristotelianism of Maimonides, Averroes and Avicenna, while Scotism reflects the Platonizing tendency going back through Avicebron, the Brethren of Purity, the Liber de Causis and Proclus to Plotinus.

The market is considered as one of the more interesting in Mauritania, but reflects the sub-saharan culture of neighboring Senegal somewhat more than the Moorish / Arabic culture found further north in the country.

The presentation of the badi in Ezra ’ s work reflects a tension between Arabic, Greek, and biblical authority.