Wiktionary:Requested entries (Arabic)

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• اِسْتِقْلَال‎ (istiqlāl), Istiqulal - from Eid Al Istiqulal, Morocco's independence day (عِيد الاِسْتِقْلَال‎ (ʿīd al-istiqlāl))
• Wahdahu Laa Shareeka Lah (from submission.org) - وحدهُ لا شريك له (from a Persian-language manual on the contact prayers/salat)
• raqi (something to do with ruqya رُقْيَة‎ (ruqya)) -
  • رَاقِي‎ (rāqī)
• مازة‎ (māza) māza: appetizer spread, hors d'oeuvres table
• albatat - possible meaning is likelihood (you’re probably thinking of البتة‎, with several meanings including completely, at all.)
• zanaat - skill, proficiency ?
• Egyptian Ogdoad حوح‎, آمون‎, كوك‎
• shadhiliyya, shadhiliyye — hippietrail 09:09, 8 July 2009 (UTC) (شاذلية‎ is feminine adjective from the surname w:Shadhili. —Stephen 01:55, 10 July 2009 (UTC))
• marqaha — hippietrail 09:11, 8 July 2009 (UTC) (مرقحة‎, coffee euphoria. —Stephen 01:55, 10 July 2009 (UTC)}})
• miqräm "tissue, kerchief" or something like that — مقرم‎ (míqram), plural مقارم‎ (maqārim) = bedspread, bedcover. —Stephen 23:10, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
• كبش‎ (kabš, “young ram”)
• noflan - perhaps two (wooden) shoes or some sort of shoes (supposed to be dual). Bulgarian налъм and Serbo-Croatian налуна descend therefrom

  It's نعلين‎ (na'līn, “'a pair of sandals', dual of نعل‎”). --Dijan 02:48, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

• laroush (is this an Arabic word?)
• zanqa (alleyway in Libyan Arabic; a source for the song title Zenga Zenga) --Lo Ximiendo 06:53, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
• ﻻ (lā) -> لا
• 3 (missing sense): used in phonetic transcriptions of Arabic to represent a certain letter or sound (ayin or ع‎ (ʿ)).
• ‫نسيه‬‎ - debt?
• khilib - understated charisma [1] (they are probably talking about خَالِب‎ (ḵālib), which is the same thing as خَلّاب‎ (ḵallāb), gripping, captivating, fascinating, attractive, engaging, winning, tempting, enticing. —Stephen ^(Talk) 01:16, 23 October 2015 (UTC))

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• أعراف‎ - something like either the Purgatory or the Heights
• الكُنْيَة‎ (al-kunya) (al-kunya, "surname"), source of alcunha
• أورانيوم‎. Mangêzd (talk) (this must be a misspelling of يورانيوم‎, or of Persian اورانیوم‎).
• أروقة‎ (arwiqa) npl., tents —Strabismus (talk) 06:24, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• ائيل‎ (ā‘īl), suffix found in the names of angels ... I don’t think this merits an entry. —Stephen 02:53, 22 November 2008 (UTC) ☛ I would like to say Muslims I know disagree with this opinion, and because most Muslims don't understand Coranic Arabic or even Arabic, it would be useful to create an entry for this ائيل, which is also a name --Air Miss 02:37, 27 July 2011 (UTC) ☛ The root of names of those angels is not Arabic AFAIK, and generally there is no suffix in Arabic for creating nouns etc. --Z 13:51, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
• أهورا‎ - ('ahūrā). أهورا مازدا ('ahūrā māzdā), God in Zoroastrianism. Heydari (talk|contibs) 17:09, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
• أرفلون‎
• ألوهية‎
• آوران‎
• امساكية‎ (emsākiyya) - I know what مَسَكَ‎ (masaka) (to grab, to hold), أمْسَكَ‎ (to hold someone, to prevent) and إمْساك‎ (ʾimsāk) (continence, abstinence, restraint) mean, but I have no precise idea for this word — (context: امســــاكية شهــــر رمضــــان المــــارك 1432 ﻫ ‒ 2011 ﻡ‎) (imsaakiiya is the calendar of fasting during Ramadan: ورقة تبين مواعيد الصوم والإفطار في شهر رمضان —Stephen ^(Talk) 07:35, 27 July 2011 (UTC))
• أرغول‎
• أست‑‎ : pre‑fix like in أستغفر‎ (I ask forgiveness) can ex‑plain what he mean, I hope not butt, or anus, like stand‑ard de‑fini‑ti‑ôn... (The prefix -sta- plus alif of liaison makes form-X verbs. The meaning imparted by this prefix is to ask or think that the sense of the form-I verb should be done. See Category:Arabic form-X verbs for examples. —Stephen ^(Talk) 09:28, 3 March 2016 (UTC))
• است‑‎ : pre‑fix like in استغفر‎ (to ask forgiveness), al‑te‑rnate form.
• أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللّٰه‎ (ʾastaḡfiru llāh) - astaghfirullah
• ألق‎ : lighten, to illuminate, shed light on, or flash ; brightness, brilliance, effulgence, glisten, glitter, luminosity, radiance, refulgence, shine. Compare with lux [luqs] / lucis [luqjs]. Shqyptar (talk) 19:30, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
• لهق‎ : be white, clear. Compare with λευκόν (leukón) / λευϙόμ (leuqóm). Shqyptar (talk) 19:30, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
• ألْحَجَر فَاتَح‎ Lichtenstein direct translation
• أحَادِي‎ single, by it's self

ب

• بجوار‎ (bajawar): I think it means "by the means of", but what is the difference between بجوار and بقلم? (ANSWER: بجوار‎, bi-jiwaar = in the neighborhood of, in the vecinity of, near, close to, beside. —Stephen ^(Talk) 00:59, 5 April 2011 (UTC))
• بطارخ‎ (baṭāriḵ) - roe, caviar -- Heydari (talk|contibs) 15:42, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
• بقا‎ - Egyptian only?
• بَرَاري‎ - wildernesses
• بَرّية‎ - wilderness

• بالنعناع‎ / بالنعنع‎ - probably means "mint" or "peppermint"

1. @-sche The above "mint"-related forms may be considered SoP or simply collocations. نَعْنَاع‎ (naʿnāʿ) is the lemma form, نَعْنَع‎ (naʿnaʿ) is an alternative form. بالنعناع (bi-'l-naʿnāʿ) is simply "with mint" (prefix "bi-", definite article "al-" (reduced to 'l in pronunciation after a vowel) and the noun. By Arabic spelling rules, one-letter prefixes are attached to the following words without a space, so is the article. Similar constructs are done for بالسكر (bi-'l-sukkar) "with sugar", بالحليب (bi-'l-ḥalīb) "with milk". Let me know, if you're satisfied with the answer. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 09:40, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

• بِشت‎
• بزق‎‎‎
• بذ‎ outdo, surpass; defeat, beat ; بوذا‎ Buddha surpass with compassion and mercifullness any one in this planet... Mangêzd (talk)
• باد‎ (bād) from root ببد‎ : perish with body & goods; disappear; fade; go out; extinguish. Compare with אבד‎ & ܐܒܕ‎... (Root 650 in Dictionnaire Larousse Compact Plus Arabe‑Français, by Daniel Reig, 2008, →ISBN)
• بطر‎ nm. recklessness, wantonness ; v. be reckless or wanton, be disrespectful.
• باد‎ (bād) : pass away, die out.
• بنكامات‎
• بَيْطَرة‎ (bayṭara)
• بَيْت أحَادِي‎ Monaco direct translation
• برنامج الطفل‎ Cartoon

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• تَعْوِيذ‎ (taʿwīḏ) — amulet, talisman; charm, spell, incantation
• تغابن‎ — loss, deprivation
• تكنولوجية‎, تكنولوجيا‎, التكنولوجيا‎
• تماشق‎ - form VI and reciprocal from (م ش ق). مَشَقَ‎ (mašaqa, “to draw, to extend”)

1. (tamāšaqa) v. to attract each other, to pull each other
2. (tamāšuq) n. verbal noun of the above verb. Mutual attraction. -- Heydari (talk|contibs) 15:57, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

• تحالف‎ — Pronounced "tahaluf" ("alliance")
• ترف‎ — soft / refined living; well be; pomp; luxury; opulence; richness; affluence.. Mangêzd (talk)
• تَضْمِين التَرَدُّد‎ (taḍmīn at-taraddud) Frequency Modulation or FM

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• جبالة‎ - people and region of northwestern Morocco
• جلدة‎ (jilda)
• جنوب السودان‎ South Sudan/(Republic of) South Sudan.
• جماعة‎
• جلبي‎

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• حوراء‎
• حليف‎ n. Pronounced "halif" meaning "ally".
• حُورِيَّة‎ (ḥūriyya)
• حَرَزَ‎ (ḥaraza) Verb meaning "to protect".

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• خاشوكة‎ Mesopotamian/Iraqi pronounced xashooga spoon or fork

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• داعي‎ (dāʕiya) — hippietrail (talk) 04:05, 10 August 2014 (UTC) - cause, reason, motive, need, requirement, necessity. —Stephen ^(Talk) 15:08, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
• دِشداشَة‎
• دابق‎
• داروما‎

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• راتنج البولي أستر‎ - especially راتنج‎, but the other parts may do
• رن‎ (ring, sound, buzz...)
• رسم إملائي‎ rasm 'imlā'iy (dictational orthography) - "modern Arabic orthography"
• رسم عثماني‎ rasm 3uṯmāniy (after Caliph `uthmaan bin `affaan) - "traditional Qur'anic orthography" --Anatoli 13:08, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
• رؤوف‎
• ربابة‎‎
• رعن‎ acting, speaking without thinking ; brainless, stupid... (Root 650 in Dictionnaire Larousse Compact Plus Arabe‑Français, by Daniel Reig, 2008, →ISBN).
• رمس‎ : grave, sepulchre. Shqyptar (talk) 17:17, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
• رَسْم هَزْلِيّ‎ (rasm hazliyy) Cartoon

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• زبانِية‎ (zabaaniya) npl., myrmidons --Strabismus (talk) 06:57, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• زفاف‎ - wedding (ceremony)
• زبن‎ (zubun) nm., clients --Strabismus (talk) 06:57, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• زواوي‎
• زغزغ‎ (zaghzagha) to tickle (Source: →ISBN
• زُلَيْح‎ (zulayḥ)
• زمارة‎

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• ساروفي‎
• سلوى‎ (salwâ): a female name and meanings about softness, agreeable scents and other things
• سفل‎. Mangêzd (talk)
• ساوافيرو‎
• سِبْس‎ (sibs) or سبس‎ - a form of reed pipe (musical instrument)
• سرحان‎
• سَلَاف‎ (salāf) Slav
• سقطرة‎ Socotra سقطرة هو في الدولة اليمن Socotra is in the state of Yemen

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• شبن‎ = ؟
  • shabani ،شبني‎ +
• شمة‎
• شريش‎
• شفشوفة‎ — ‘shufshuufa’, this is how everyone in (rebel areas of) Libya refers to Gaddafi, it's on all the graffiti etc.....I think it means "the curly-haired one" but would be good to get more info on this. May be specifically Libyan Arabic? (—Widsith, un-logged in) (I don’t know much about Libyan Arabic, but in Standard Arabic, شفشف‎ (shafshafa) means to dry, dry out, parch, drain. In Libya, شفشوفة‎ seems to mean "old frizzy-haired". —Stephen ^(Talk) 04:13, 6 September 2011 (UTC))
• شلبي‎
• سحوق‎ - a type of hot sauce (apparently from Yemeni Arabic) (= sahawiq, or Hebrew skhug סחוג) —Stephen ^(Talk) 22:16, 3 August 2016 (UTC))
• شَيْلَة‎ (šayla) - veil? a specific type of veil?
• شَبّابَة‎ (šabbāba) Flute
• شقيقة‎ both migraine and sister (?) (it means sister, but it's used in the term for migraine: الشقيقة ألم نصف الرأس‎ (sister's half-the-head pain) and الشقيقة مرض‎ (sister's illness) both mean migraine})

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• صقليب‎ (Sclave Σκλάβος, latin sclavus of byzantine ellenic greek general) (never heard of this word. Hakeem.gadi will have to decide if it exists.) (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esclavon)
• صليبية‎ (Saliibiiya) nf., crusade
• صبابة‎
• صنج‎ - harp (from Persian "chang")

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• ضَرِم‎ (ḍarim) [dˁarim] (Sunni) / [zˁarim] (Shia) : be inflamed, flare up, to burn, anger, choler, kindle, ignite, light up, cognate with Albanian zjarr (Tosk.) / Albanian zjarm (Geg.) from Ottoman Turkish ضرم‎ [zˁarm] & Turkish kızarmış (“fried”).
  Ʃkyp‑tar(talk) 05:48, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

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• طارق‎ (ṭāriq) nm., banging (creating a noise)
• طاقية‎
• طنبور‎
  • طنبورة‎

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• عديمة‎
• عباة‎
• عثم‎. Mangêzd (talk)
• عدنان‎‎
• عرية‎ (‘urya) nf., nudity
• عزومة مراكبية‎ - an idom or expression popular in Egypt - [2]
• عَظَاءَة‎ (ʿaẓāʾa)
• عمرة‎ (ʕúmra) - 'umra , lesser Hajj
• عمري‎ - ʕumriy (I am ... years old)
• عهر‎ : prostitution, adultery, fornication, harlotry. Compare with ܥܗܪ : to rut, lustful, to burn with desire, lasciviousness Mangêzd (talk)
• عَرَبَة الشاطِئ‎ (ʿaraba(t) aš-šāṭiʾ) Beach buggy

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• غاشية‎
• غيطه‎
• غازي‎ (ghaazii) nm., warlord --Strabismus (talk) 06:35, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• غفار‎ (ghaffar) adj., merciful
• غفور‎ (ghafuur) adj., merciful
• اغتفر‎

• غُترَة‎ (“kind of headwear”)
• غنوصية‎ (“gnostic”)

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• فوزيّ‎ (Fawziy, “triumph”)
• فُصْحَى اَلتُّرَاث‎‎ (fuṣḥā t-turāṯ) Classical Arabic, Qur'anic Arabic

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• قحطان‎‎ (Qahtan or Qaḥṭān or Kahtan)
• قيدوم‎ (qayduum) nm., prow
• قيوم‎
• كنف‎ (kanafa) to enclose
• قوّالی‎
• قنبوس‎
• قَيْنة‎ (qayna) - singing slave girl (singular)
  • قِيان‎ (qiyān) - singing slave girl (plural)
• قرح‎ - natural disposition, faculty, genius, inclination, predisposition, talent, verve ; قراح‎ clear, limpid, pure. [R-4203]. Shqyptar (talk) 08:49, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
• قُوطة‎ (qūṭa) Tomato

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• كراب‎ (possibly could be dialect for خراب‎, ruin...could be the English name Crabbe, or from English proper noun Crab as in Crab Nebula...otherwise, no idea)
• كرتون‎ (cardboard)
• كَندورَة‎
• كاوالا‎‎‎ - an end-blown flute
• كولة‎‎ - an end-blown flute
• كمنجة‎ - a fiddle
  • كمنجا‎ - a fiddle
• كرد‎ - the name of a maqam
• كبابة‎ - cubeb
• كِلْس‎‎ (kils) - lime
• كُرَة اَلْقَدَم اَلْأَمْرِيكِيَّة‎‎ (kura(t) al-qadam al-ʾamrīkiyya) American Football
• كُرَة اَلْأَمْرِيكِيَّة‎‎ (kura(t) al-ʾamrīkiyya) American Football
• كُرَة طَاوِلَة‎‎ (kura(t) ṭāwila) Pool or table tennis
• كُرَة مِضْرَب‎‎ (kura(t) miḍrab) Tennis
• كُرَة قَاعِدَة‎ (kura(t) qāʿida) Baseball
• كُرَة قَوَاعِد‎‎ (kura(t) qawāʿid) Baseball
• كُرَة الريشة‎ Badminton
• كُرَة صَوْلَجَان‎ (kura(t) ṣawlajān) Golf
• كُرَة يَد‎ (kura(t) yad) Volleyball
• كُرَة طَائِرَة‎ (kura(t) ṭāʾira) Volleyball

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• مَاعُون‎ (māʿūn)
• مُمْتَحَنَة‎ (mumtaḥana)
• مدجول‎ - a type of date
  • or is ﻣﺠﻬﻮل‎ more correct?
• مدق‎ (midaqq), beetle; pestle; in Egypt, trail. from دق‎ (dáqqa), to be fine, tiny, to grind, pulverize. —Stephen 03:55, 3 December 2009 (UTC))
• مراقي‎ (marāqi (?)) - hypochondriac, please check and add the romanisation to Appendix:List of Balkanisms
• مريد‎ (mariid) adj., rebellious
• مستعلي‎‎ (Musta‘lī)
• معراج‎ (mi‘raaj) nm., ladder
• منتظر‎
• ماروم‎
• موصل‎

1. (mawṣil) n. Noun of place from the verb وَصَلَ‎ (waṣala, “to arrive”)
2. (muwaṣṣil) n. Conductor. Active participle of the verb وَصَّلَ‎ (waṣṣala, “to put together”)

• مراقب‎ Plural مراقبون "Observers" Used in the context of the _observers_ in Syria.
• مسلحة‎ Adjective pronounced "musalaha" meaning "armed" as in "bearing weapons".
• مكسيكي‎ (maksikiy) (male adjective "Mexican"), مكسيكية‎ (feminine adjective "Mexican").
• مورد‎ n. ("Resource"/"Resources").
• مفاوضة‎ n. مفاوضات‎ ("Negotiation"/"Negotiations")
• مشارك‎ n. "participant"
• مطالبة‎ n. "claim"
• مَشَدة‎ (mašada)
• مزي‎ distinguished, stylish, clever, witty (Root 5071 & 5243 ممز‎ in Dictionnaire Larousse Compact Plus Arabe‑Français, by Daniel Reig, 2008, →ISBN)
• مزية‎ : good quality, good traits ; advantage, characteristic, excellence, good quality or feature, merit, particularity, peculiarity, property, trait, virtue. Shqyptar (talk) 04:24, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
• مظهر‎ - has Persian, needs Arabic
• مجل‎
• مشوة‎ - distorted?
• مهند‎
• مِقَشّة‎ (miqašša), مَقاشّ‎ (maqāšš, “tongs or broom?”) tool noun
• مِحَشَّة‎ (miḥašša, “ما تُحرّك به النَّارُ لتشتعل”)
• مِلْحَفَة‎‎ (milḥafa, “غطاء من قماش يغطى به السرير ونحوه”)
• مِرْنَاة‎ (mirnāh) television or tv set
• مِرْيَاء‎ (miryāʾ) video
• منقلة‎‎ (minqalah)

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• نبج‎ to flow
• نسيم‎ (nasîm): breeze, and
• نسيم البحر‎ (nasîm al-bahr): sea breeze
• نتش‎ (natasha) to unplug →ISBN
• نقّارة‎
• نَبَأَ‎ (nabaʾa) — to be elevated, high
• نَبَأ‎ (nabaʾ) — news, tidings, information
• نجز‎ — More than perfect, complete, accomplished, achieved. Shqyptar, 13:16, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

ه

• هتم‎ - I came across the verb form يهتم. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 12:14, 26 May 2017 (UTC) (I believe that يهتم, cares about, is Verb form VIII from هَمَّ‎ (hamma) (to concern, be important). The word هُتْم‎ (hutm) is the plural form of the adjective أَهْتَم‎ (ʾahtam), having no front teeth. أَهْتَمُّ‎ (ʾahtammu) also means "I look after". —Stephen ^(Talk) 01:28, 27 May 2017 (UTC))
• هابيل‎ (haabiil) nmpr., Abel
• هرواك‎ Adjective or Noun, Libyan Arabic
• هراويك‎ (plural)
• هرية‎ ?
• هورية‎ ?
• هيلين‎ (helēn)
• تهلين‎ (tahlīn, Hellenization with ethymology with Greek root)
• هلينية‎ (with link to الهلينية‎)
• هيلينيا‎ (helēnīya)
• هلن‎ (helēn) - has Persian, needs Arabic
• هلع‎ (Helo)
• هيعون‎
• هكذا‎ Pronounced "hakadha". Meaning "thus", "so"...
• هاودة‎ from هود‎ kindness, gentleness, indulgence, moderation, tolerance. Mangêzd (talk)
• هَارِب‎ (hārib) also means fugitive, runaway, refugee, deserter)
• هَزْل‎ (hazl) levity, jocularity
• هَزْلِي‎ (hazlī) funny, comical, cartoony

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• وفد‎
• وسر‎. Mangêzd (talk)
• وطر‎. Mangêzd (talk)
• وأر‎. Mangêzd (talk)
• وهر‎. Mangêzd (talk)
• وَرَق مُقَوَّى‎ (waraq muqawwā) cardboard

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• يراطنون‎, "they try to speak gibberish" from راطن‎ (rāṭana), conative of رطن‎ (ráṭana), to speak gibberish. —Stephen 05:57, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
• ينبع‎