The Phoenician letter names, in which each letter was associated with a word that begins with that sound, continue to be used to varying degrees in Samaritan, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic.

These can range from simple spelling changes and word forms to switching the entire writing system itself, as when Turkey switched from the Arabic alphabet to a Turkish alphabet of Latin origin.

In popular usage, abjads often contain the word " alphabet " in their names, such as " Arabic alphabet " and " Phoenician alphabet ".

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

In Arabic, " A " (), " B " (), "" (), " D " () make the word " abjad " which means " alphabet ".

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

Hazred could come from the Persian or Arabic word " Hazrat " meaning Great Lord with a twist that makes it sound like " red " and " hazard " both indicative of danger.

The English word amber derives from the Arabic anbar, via Medieval Latin ambar and Old French ambre.

Known to the Iranians by the Pahlavi compound word kah-ruba ( from kah “ straw ” plus rubay “ attract, snatch ,” referring to its electrical properties ), which entered Arabic as kahraba ' or kahraba, it too was called amber in Europe ( Old French and Middle English ambre ).

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

Both printed and written Arabic are cursive, with most of the letters within a word directly connected to the adjacent letters.

The word " alkali " is derived from Arabic al qalīy ( or alkali ), meaning the calcined ashes ( see calcination ), referring to the original source of alkaline substances.

The word assassin is often believed to derive from the word Hashshashin ( Persian: حش ّ اشين, ħashshāshīyīn, also Hashishin, Hashashiyyin, or Assassins ), and shares its etymological roots with hashish ( or ; from Arabic: ).

The name boron originates from the Arabic word buraq or the Persian word burah ; which are names for the mineral borax.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

The word alchemy in turn is derived from the Arabic word al-kīmīā ( الكيمياء ), meaning alchemy.

The word " cipher " in former times meant " zero " and had the same origin: Middle French as < span lang =" fr "> cifre </ span > and Medieval Latin as cifra, from the Arabic صفر ṣifr = zero ( see Zero — Etymology ).

Dr. Al-Kadi concluded that the Arabic word sifr, for the digit zero, developed into the European technical term for encryption.

Like several other stars such as Denebola and Deneb, it is named for the Arabic word for " tail " ( deneb ); its traditional name means " the tail of the kid ".

The traditional names of α Capricorni come from the Arabic word for " the kid ", which references the constellation's mythology.

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 ".

Descendants with origins from Anah are commonly referred to as " Alanie ", literally meaning " the one from Anah " in Arabic.

First attested in English in the mid-15th century, the word carat came from Middle French carat, in turn from Italian carato, which came from Arabic qīrāṭ ( قيراط ), which came from Greek kerátion ( κεράτιον ) meaning carob seed ( literally " small horn ")

Ezekiel (;, Y ' ḥez ' qel, ), Arabic :< font size = 2 > حزقيال </ font > Hazqiyal, ' God will strengthen ' ( from, ḥazaq,, literally ' to fasten upon ,' figuratively ' strong ,' and, el,, literally ' God ', and so figuratively ' The Almighty ') is the central protagonist of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible.

If one wanted to assert, in Arabic, that an apple looks red, one would not literally say " the apple is red ", but " the apple red ".

Another theory by Alauddin Samarrai suggests an Arabic origin, from fuyū ( the plural of fay, which literally means " the returned ", and was used especially for ' land that has been conquered from enemies that did not fight ').

Jinn is a noun of the collective number in Arabic literally meaning " hidden from sight ", and it derives from the Arabic root meaning " to hide " or " be hidden ".

It is surmised that the language of Urdu ( literally meaning " horde " or " camp " in various Turkic dialects ) was born during the Delhi Sultanate period as a result of the intermingling of the local speakers of Sanskritic Prakrits with immigrants speaking Persian, Turkic, and Arabic under the Muslim rulers.

Intifada ( ) is an Arabic word which literally means " shaking off ", though it is popularly translated into English as " uprising " or " resistance " or " rebellion ".

The words " lute " and " oud " derive from Arabic al ‘ ud ( العود ; literally " the wood ").

The word mancala comes from the Arabic word naqala meaning literally " moved.

The words for pencil in German ( Bleistift ), Irish ( Peann Luaidhe ), Arabic ( قلم رصاص qalam ruṣāṣ ), and other languages literally mean lead pen.

The name stems from Serendip, an old name for Sri Lanka ( aka Ceylon ), from Arabic Sarandib, which was adopted from Tamil " Seren deevu " or originally from Sanskrit Suvarnadweepa or golden island ( some trace the etymology to Simhaladvipa which literally translates to " Dwelling-Place-of-Lions Island ").

The Arabic term salaam, literally " peace " from the spoken greeting that accompanies the gesture, refers placing the right palm on the heart, prior and after a handshake.

Allah ( literally, al-ʾilāh ) is also the Arabic name for the God of Abraham in general, as it is used by Arab Christians and traditionally, Mizrahi Jews.

; literally " the red one ", feminine ; in colloquial Arabic: ), the complete form of which was Calat Alhambra (, trans.

The word Intifada in Arabic is literally translated as " tremor ", however, it is generally defined as an uprising or revolt.

After Arafat was elected to the post of President of the PNA, he was often referred to as the Ra ' is, ( literally president in Arabic ), although he spoke of himself as " the general ".

The name literally means ' dripping ' in Arabic.

The Arabic term ( ولادة قيصرية wilaada qaySaríyya ) also means pertaining to Caesar or literally Caesarean.

" The Qur ' an does not use the technical Arabic word for miracle ( Muʿd ̲ j ̲ iza ) literally meaning " that by means of which Prophet confounds, overwhelms, his opponents ".

Dawah means to " invite " ( in Arabic, literally " calling ") to Islam, estimated to be the second largest religion next to Christianity.

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.