Category:English terms calqued from Arabic

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Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. West Bank
  2. axis of resistance
  3. Islamic State
  4. Marinid
  5. from the river to the sea
  6. double-edged sword
  7. Syrian Arab Army
  8. sound plural
  9. noun of place
  10. broken plural
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. United Arab Emirates
  2. dragon's wort
  3. Holy Spirit
  4. oxeye
  5. peace be upon her
  6. Zionist entity
  7. double-edged sword
  8. sun letter
  9. moon letter
  10. West Bank

English terms that were calqued from Arabic, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of Arabic terms.

To categorize a term into this category, use {{cal|en|ar|source_term}} (or {{clq|...}} or {{calque|...}}, using the same syntax), where source_term is the source-language term that the term in question was borrowed from.