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.

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

The term " Bedouin " derives from a plural form of the Arabic word, as it is pronounced in colloquial dialects.

* Lebanese Arabic, the colloquial form of Arabic spoken in Lebanon.

* The name Difda al Auwel comes from the colloquial Arabic " the first frog " ( the second frog is Beta Ceti ).

While the term Peranakan is most commonly used among the ethnic Chinese for those of Chinese descent also known as Straits Chinese (; named after the Straits Settlements ), there are also other, comparatively small Peranakan communities, such as Indian Hindu Peranakans ( Chitty ), Indian Muslim Peranakans ( Jawi Pekan ) ( Jawi being the Javanised Arabic script, Pekan a colloquial contraction of Peranakan ) and Eurasian Peranakans ( Kristang ) ( Kristang = Christians ).

Later on, however, preaching in colloquial languages, while often retaining certain Arabic expressions, has become increasingly common.

* In colloquial Arabic, when someone talks that way he is referred as " speaking in Indian ".

* Iraqi Arabic, the colloquial form of Arabic spoken in Iraq.

They all criticized the overuse of Persian, Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, and European ( mainly Russian ) elements in both colloquial and literary language and called for a more simple and popular style.

The Mandaeans were originally native speakers of Mandaic, a Semitic language that evolved from Eastern Middle Aramaic, before switching to colloquial Iraqi Arabic and Modern Persian.

In colloquial Arabic, the term is sometimes used to describe a greedy or gluttonous individual.

The article focuses both on the grammar of Literary Arabic ( i. e. Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic, which have largely the same grammar ) and of the colloquial spoken varieties of Arabic.

Generally, the grammar of Classical Arabic is described first, followed by the areas in which the colloquial variants tend to differ ( note that not all colloquial variants have the same grammar ).

A minority of scholars, such as Richard Hitchcock contend that the Romance Kharjas are, in fact, not predominantly in a Romance language at all, but rather an extremely colloquial Arabic idiom bearing marked influence from the local Romance varieties.

The Arabic word for Egypt is Misr ( pronounced Masr in Egyptian colloquial Arabic ), and Egypt's official name is Gumhuriyah Misr al -' Arabiyah ( the Arab Republic of Egypt ).

The word for " coffeeshop " in Modern Standard Arabic is ( maqha, literally meaning " place of coffee ", plural, maqahi ( n )), but the more common term in colloquial Arabic is simply ( qahwa ), meaning " coffee " in much the same way as French and Portuguese use café for both.

The team name is typically pronounced, but their longtime team owner / manager Connie Mack called them by the old-fashioned colloquial Irish pronunciation.

George W. Bush has been given the nickname " Dubya ", after the colloquial pronunciation of W in Texas.

Dort was a contemporary English term for the town of Dordrecht ( and it remains the local colloquial pronunciation ).

When the British first came to the island, they used the colloquial pronunciation of Nam Ah, i. e. " Lam Ah ( Lamma )" as the name of the island.

Careful Hebrew speakers are taught to avoid the colloquial pronunciation of בדיוק ( bediyyuq, " exactly ") as.

The marked difference between the Botanical Latin-based pronunciation ( given here ) and anglicized colloquial pronunciations ( with a silent " e ") is sometimes a source of confusion in oral communication about this genus.

The colloquial form gonna is a relaxed pronunciation of going to.

A colloquial variation adds a vowel sound, resulting in the pronunciation, " tar-POLE-ee-in ".

In other Arab countries tav raphe is pronounced: this is equally consistent with the pronunciation of Sephardi Hebrew and with that of colloquial Arabic.

* The Russian language abbreviation for the institute, NIICHAVO, sounds like a colloquial pronunciation for the word " nichevo " (" it doesn't matter " or " nothing ").

A colloquial name for Northern Ireland which has grown in popularity in recent years is " Norn Iron ", derived from an over exaggerated pronunciation of ' Northern Ireland ' in a broad Belfast accent.

However, since Paul was from Cilicia and refers to himself using this name ( see Acts 21: 39, 22: 3 ), it seems very natural that the name Cilicia would have continued to be in colloquial use among its residents despite its hiatus in official Roman nomenclature.

The sport is also very popular on the eastern side of the Adriatic, especially in Slovenia ( where it is known as balinanje or colloquial playing boče or bale from Italian bocce or palle meaning balls ), Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Hercegovina ( in Serbo-Croatian known under the name of boćanje or simply playing boće ( colloquial also bućanje or playing balote ), originating in Italian boccie ).

Kiwi is also a colloquial name for New Zealanders.

In order to make money for his newly founded company, he made The Kingdom ( Riget, 1994 ) and The Kingdom II ( Riget II, 1997 ), a pair of miniseries recorded in the Danish national hospital, the name " Riget " being a colloquial name for the hospital known as Rigshospitalet ( lit.

Originally the word was a colloquial name for a group of the harmless buriers of the dead during the Black Death, in the 14th century, known as Alexians, Alexian Brothers or Cellites.

The German title satirizes the German custom of giving a subtitle to the name of dramas in the form of " Ein Drama in ... Akten " ( A Drama of ... acts ), which became dictums in colloquial usage for any event with an unpleasant or dramatic course, e. g. " Bundespräsidentenwahl-Drama in drei Akten " ( Federal presidential Elections-Drama in Three Acts ).

In North America the term gasoline is often shortened in colloquial usage to gas but some people use the term petrol which is the common name in Britain.

* A colloquial name for Scottish hero Robert Roy MacGregor, who has been described as the Scottish Robin Hood

The name Thera was revived in the nineteenth century as the official name of the island and its main city, but the colloquial name Santorini is still in popular use.

The name of the car celebrated the new Communist planned economy but also referred to aeroplane inspiration (' éroplan ' means aeroplane in colloquial Czech ).

* In several English-speaking countries, " Niggerhead " or " nigger head " was used as a name for all sorts of things, including commercial products, places, plants and animals, as well as a colloquial technical term in industry, mining and seafaring.

* Tare, a colloquial name for the Common Vetch ( Vicia sativa ) and some other species of vetches ( Vicia )

In Russian it keeps its Persian name of ferz to this day ; koroleva or queen is colloquial and is never used by professional chess players.

A common symbol of the holiday is the skull ( in Spanish calavera ), which celebrants represent in masks, called calacas ( colloquial term for " skeleton "), and foods such as sugar or chocolate skulls, which are inscribed with the name of the recipient on the forehead.

* La Yuma, colloquial name for the United States

The word pewter is probably a variation of the word spelter, a term for zinc alloys ( originally a colloquial name for zinc ).

Tolkien took the name " Gamgee " from a colloquial word in Birmingham for cotton wool.

* A colloquial name for the Common wasp in southern England and the English Midlands

* The Pelhams, New York, a colloquial name for an area of towns of Westchester County, New York