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 ).

ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ, which is far more common in the sources than the variant form Abraxas, ΑΒΡΑΞΑΣ ) was a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the “ Great Archon ” ( Gk., megas archōn ), the princeps of the 365 spheres ( Gk., ouranoi ).

* J. J. Bellermann thinks it a compound of the Egyptian words abrak and sax, meaning “ the honorable and hallowed word ,” or “ the word is adorable .”

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.

Perhaps the word may be included among those mysterious expressions discussed by Adolf von Harnack, “ which belong to no known speech, and by their singular collocation of vowels and consonants give evidence that they belong to some mystic dialect, or take their origin from some supposed divine inspiration .”

However, there are notable exceptions to this in all major translations, such as: “… I am with you always, to the end of the age ” ( NRSV ), the word “ age ” being a translation of aion.

The main recent sense of the word “ art ” is roughly as an abbreviation for creative art or “ fine art .” Here we mean that skill is being used to express the artist ’ s creativity, or to engage the audience ’ s aesthetic sensibilities, or to draw the audience towards consideration of the “ finer ” things.

His comment on Numbers 23: 19 has a still more polemical tone: “ God is not a man that he should lie ; neither the son of man, that he should repent ; < font face =" times new roman " size = 3 > if a man says: ‘ I am a god ’ he is a liar ; if he says: ‘ I am a son of man ’ he will have cause to regret it ; and if he says, ‘ I will go up to heaven ’ he has said but will not keep his word ” last phrase is borrowed from B ' midbar 23: 19 ( Yer.

Amok originated from the Malay word mengamuk, which roughly defined means “ to make a furious and desperate charge ”.

The preservation of the book of Joel indicates that it was accorded special status by its contemporaries as “ the word of the Lord ” ( 1: 1 ).

* The Heading ( 1: 1 ): As is typical of prophetic books, an anonymous editor has supplied the name of the prophet, an indication of his time of activity, and an identification of his speech as the “ word of Yahweh ”, a generic term carrying a claim to prophetic legitimacy and authority.

The word “ classics ” is derived from the Latin adjective classicus: “ belonging to the highest class of citizens ”, connoting superiority, authority, and perfection.

The word crystal is derived from the Ancient Greek word (), meaning both “ ice ” and “ rock crystal ”, from (), " icy cold, frost ".

However, this word is regularly derived from Celtic * Kombrogi, meaning “ compatriots ”.

The Beano comic takes its name from the English word beano which can be loosely interpreted as a good time.

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic paper or comic magazine ( often shortened to simply comic or comics ) is a magazine made up of " comics "— narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog ( usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book art form ) as well as including brief descriptive prose.

Because of the stylistic similarities between comic strips and early animated movies, " cartoon " came to refer to animation, and the word " cartoon " is currently used to refer to both animated cartoons and gag cartoons.

Manga is the Japanese word for comic and print cartoons.

The opera introduced a new character called ' the dancing missionary ', who was to appear in several episodes of the comic strip during 1909, and the word whiffenpoof.

* The January 8, 2008 comic of Ozy and Millie featured a panel in which Millie repeats the word " Splorsh " and Ozy quips " I've noticed you find Onomatopoeia extremely distracting.

Punch was responsible for the word sense " cartoon " as a comic drawing.

" Cugley used the newly-shortened word to describe a development in the comic book Saga of the Swamp Thing, which reinterprets the events of the title character's origin by revealing facts that, up to that point, are not part of the narrative and were not intended by earlier writers.

Outcault's word balloons in the Yellow Kid influenced the basic appearance and use of balloons in subsequent newspaper comic strips and comic books.

While the word vodka could be found in manuscripts and in lubok ( лубок, pictures with text explaining the plot, a Russian predecessor of the comic ), it began to appear in Russian dictionaries in the mid-19th century.

It was caught out of childhood memory, as a comic word or name.

This section includes various comic scenes relating to mutual stereotyping among different ethnic groups ; the two attempt to pass themselves off as indigenous Mexicans, failing to convince one Mexican truck driver after naming the wrong destination, but later succeeding in convincing a U. S. Border Patrol officer by copiously peppering their responses with the Mexican word for " fuck ", which a neighbor had suggested was how all Mexicans speak.

(" Foo " is a nonsense word from the Smokey Stover comic strip, a big influence on this cartoon in terms of humor and visual style.

One comic moment in the play deals with a servant not realising that poetry featuring references to dildos is vulgar, presumably from not knowing what the word means.

The word itself originates with the Roman comic playwright Plautus, who coined the term somewhat facetiously in the prologue to his play Amphitryon.

Sheridan presumably named his character Mrs. Malaprop, who frequently misspoke ( to great comic effect ), in joking reference to the word malapropos.

* Confusopoly Pricing – Companies Intentionally Trick Consumers Instead of Competing with examples of Dilbert comic strips that exemplify the meaning of the word

A notable example of this use is in the comic series Tintin, where the word is often used as an expletive by Captain Haddock.

Beginning his career in operetta, Leslie became best known for starring in, and writing ( under the pseudonym A. C. Torr, a pun on the word " actor "), popular burlesque plays and other comic works of theatre.

The word " padiddle " first appeared in print in a 1948 B. Montana Archie comic strip, published in the Nevada State Journal on 23 May ( Comics section ).

The same word for “ sea ” is also known from Germanic, but with an a (* mari -), whereas a cognate of marbh is unknown in all dialects of Germanic.

The origins of the word “ mail ” are not fully known.

One theory is that it originally derives from the Latin word macula, meaning " spot " or “ opacity ” ( as in macula of retina ).

Another theory relates the word to the old French “ maillier ”, meaning “ to hammer ” ( a cognate of the modern English word “ malleable ”).

The first attestations of the word “ mail ” are in Old French and Anglo-Norman: “ maille ” “ maile ”, or “ male ” or other variants, which became “ mailye ” “ maille ” “ maile ”, “ male ”, or “ meile ” in Middle English.

Since then the word “ mail ” has been commonly, if incorrectly, applied to other types of armour, such as in “ plate-mail ” ( first attested in 1835 ).

The word ' Onager ' is derived from the Greek word ' onagros ' for wild ass, referring to the “ kicking motion and force ” that were recreated in the Mangonel's design.