Wiktionary:Requested entries (Arabic)

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• إليصابات: the name Elizabeth? not sure (Are you trying to find out the Arabic for Elizabeth, which is إليزابيث, or are you asking what إليصابات means? إليصابات is a much older version referring to the Biblical Elizabeth.)
• كيف kayf, keyf "pleasure"
• مازة māza: appetizer spread, hors d'oeuvres table
• ؟؟؟ artiya-il (???) in arab please (http://nurmuhammad.com/Meditation/Angelic/AngelsDhikrShort.htm)
• إسماعيل Isma’il (??? ??? First Sky) in Orbitian / Arab please
•  ??? arina’il (??? zaytun third sky) in Orbitian / Arab please
•  ??? Salsa’ïl (??? Zahir fourthed sky) in Orbitian / Arab please
•  ??? kalqa'ïl (??? safiya fifth sky) in Orbitian / Arab please
•  ??? samkha’il (??? khalisa sixth sky)) in Orbitian / Arab please
•  ??? Afra’il (??? ghariba seventh sky)) in Orbitian / Arab please
• albatat - possible meaning is likelihood (you’re probably thinking of البتة, with several meanings including completely, at all.)
•  ??? harqua'ill (angel of throne כס / imperial princess pussy كس) (http://www.muhammadanreality.com/ascentionmiraj.htm#Buraq is Dispatched to His Noble Mount)
• zanaat - skill, proficiency ?
• Egyptian Ogdoad حوح, آمون, كوك
• 'awārīya "damaged goods", needed for the etymology of average, avaria, авария (avarija) etc. (I believe this is عوار (ʕawār, “fault, blemish, defect, flaw”) < عور (ʕáwira, “to lose an eye”). —Stephen 22:42, 22 May 2009 (UTC))
• 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)}})
• āfät, äft - "misfortune, bad omen" — آفة (’āfa(t)), plural آفات (’āfāt) = harm, hurt, damage, ruin, evil, bane. —Stephen 23:32, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
• miqräm "tissue, kerchief" or something like that — مقرم (míqram), plural مقارم (maqārim) = bedspread, bedcover. —Stephen 23:10, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
• quşur - "change, remainder" or something like that — كسور (kusūr) (fraction, fragment, fracture, crack), plural of كسر < root ك س ر.
• ريحان — The entry for Rihanna indicates a derivation from Arabic meaning sweet basil.
• الترك (al-turk, “the Turks”). Any information as to whether they got it from the Turks themselves or from the Persians would also be appreciated.
• كبش (kabš, “young ram”)
• تسليمة (taslima) < سلم (sálima) — "Teslime" or "Taslima" — a female given name
• 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)

• جاهلية (jahilíyya, “ignorance”) — whence the English jahiliyyah
• 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)
• ﷽ (بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم all on one symbol)
• ﻻ (lā) -> لا
• أجَل (’ájal)
• 3 (missing sense): used in phonetic transcriptions of Arabic to represent a certain letter or sound (ayin or ع).
• سَلَاطِين (salāṭīn), the plural form of سُلْطَان (sulṭān, “sultan”)

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• أجل (ajila) vi., to hesitate; (ajal) interj., certainly —Strabismus (talk) 06:24, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• ألغى
• ألاهة (Muses in Babylon Dictionary) (I think it’s a misspelling of إلاهة)
• عباد (Obedient)
• أورانيوم (this must be a misspelling of يورانيوم, or of Persian اورانیوم)
• يورانيم (this must be a misspelling of يورانيوم)
• 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)
• أرعد (ur‘ida) vp., to shiver —Strabismus (talk) 06:24, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• إسراء
• آنسة (aanisa) nf., lass, young woman --Strabismus (talk) 06:24, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• أهورا
• أرفلون
• ألوهية
• الجبر
• آوران
• أتون - (attuun) m cooking stove, oven Anatoli 04:38, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
• ألمانية - I believe it's the German language ☛ No, ألمانية is “Germany”, in general, and “the “German language”” is اللغة الألمانية --Air Miss 02:37, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
• لازورد (lāzuward)
• الزليج (az-zulayj)
• أذان (adhan) nm., call to prayer --Strabismus (talk) 06:24, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• أسعد (as‘ad) adj., happier --Strabismus (talk) 06:24, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• امساكية (emsākiyya) - I know what مَسَكَ (to grab, to hold), أمْسَكَ (to hold someone, to prevent) and إمْساك (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))
• أزمة (crisis)
• أخيرا adv. (finally)
• أمن n. (security)
• استوديو n. (studio)
• إصلاح n. (reform)

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
• بلاء (balaa’) - misfortune, calamity (from بلا, balaa, to test, to try)
• برنس (burnus)
• بقا - Egyptian only?
• بقلم (biqawar): I think it means "by the means of", but what is the difference between بجوار and بقلم? (ANSWER: بقلم, bi-qalam = by, written by. —Stephen ^(Talk) 00:59, 5 April 2011 (UTC))
• بندق (búnduq): hazelnuts?
• برنوس (burnūs) burnoose?
• بَرَاري - wildernesses
• بَرّية - wilderness

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• • تسليم (tasliim) nm., surrender --Strabismus (talk) 06:28, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
  • تكبير (takbiir) nm., increase, enlargement --Strabismus (talk) 06:28, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
  • تكنولوجية, تكنولوجيا, التكنولوجيا
  • تماشق
  • تحالف Pronounced "tahaluf" ("alliance")

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• جد noun means "Grandfather" (singular) or verb "worked hard" (singular)
• غيطه
• جبالة - people and region of northwestern Morocco
• جلدة (jilda)
• خليج (pronounced "khalij") "Gulf".
• جنوب السودان South Sudan/(Republic of) South Sudan.
• جماعة
• جُبْن (jubn) -- source of the Maltese word for "cheese"

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• حضور (ḥuḍūr)
• حطم (HaTama) vt., to break --Strabismus (talk) 06:33, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• حلوم
• حنش (Hanash) nm., snake --Strabismus (talk) 06:33, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• حوراء
• حدود n. Pronounced "hudud" meaning "border".
• حجم n. Pronounced "hajama" meaning "size".
• حاليا adv. Pronounced "haaliya" meaning "currently".
• حليف n. Pronounced "halif" meaning "ally".

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• غازي (ghaazii) nm., warlord --Strabismus (talk) 06:35, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• خراء

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• درج (daraja) vi., to go, move --Strabismus (talk) 06:39, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• دهر (dahr) nm., passage of time --Strabismus (talk) 06:39, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• دوران - revolution (as in turning)?
• دخس (duxas) nm., dolphin --Strabismus (talk) 06:39, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

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• ذاب (dhāba) to melt (source: ISBN 0-8184-0430-2)

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• ريفي (riifii) adj., rustic --Strabismus (talk) 06:51, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• رفة
• رن (ring, sound, buzz...)
• رع
• رفيع (rafii‘) adj., lofty --Strabismus (talk) 06:51, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• رائع (raa'i‘) adj., clear as daylight --Strabismus (talk) 06:51, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• رونق (rawnaq) nm., luster --Strabismus (talk) 06:51, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• رسم إملائي rasm 'imlaa'iy (dictational orthography) - "modern Arabic orthography"
• رسم عثماني rasm 3uthmaaniy (after Caliph `uthmaan bin `affaan) - "traditional Qur'anic orthography" --Anatoli 13:08, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
• ريف - (riif) nm., countryside --Strabismus (talk) 06:51, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• رؤوف
• رومي (ruumii) - Needs Arabic - adj., pert. to the Romaeans --Strabismus (talk) 06:51, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

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• زبانِية (zabaaniya) npl., myrmidons --Strabismus (talk) 06:57, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• زيد
• زفاف - wedding (ceremony)
• زبن (zubun) nm., clients --Strabismus (talk) 06:57, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• زبالين - Zabbaleen, caste of "garbage people" in Cairo
• زواوي
• زغزغ (zaghzagha) to tickle (Source: ISBN 0-8184-0430-2)

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• سامي (saamii) adj., Semitic --Strabismus (talk) 07:02, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• سمي (samii) adj., elevated --Strabismus (talk) 07:02, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• سماوي (samaawii) adj., celestial --Strabismus (talk) 07:02, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• ساروفي
• سيئة "bad" (feminine)
• ست (Seth, Egyptian god of malevolence) / (satt) nf., lady --Strabismus (talk) 07:02, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• سوى (sawiya) vt., to equal --Strabismus (talk) 07:02, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• سلوى (salwâ): a female name and meanings about softness, agreeable scents and other things
• سهم -- (sahm?) Arabic needed; arrow? --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 08:07, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

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• شبن = ؟
  • shabani ،شبني +
• شيطانة (Hag, link with the existing error word شيطانه of & شیطانه) (never heard of this word. User:Hakeem.gadi will have to decide if it exists.) I find this word in Babylon dictionary & Lingvosoft Dictionary (Arab dictionary)
• شمة
• شفع
• شريش
• شمل shamala/shamila - to include; shaml - inclusion, connection, fusion, etc. Source: [1] Anatoli 23:59, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
• شمالية
• شبه - semi- ?
• 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))
• شفار, شفارين (shaffareen) - possibly Moroccon dialect

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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
• صخر — i don't know what it means and if the 'academic' pronunciation is 'sah-khir' or 'sah-khër' (i haven't heard well...). I saw that a man bears this first name on the front of his shop, and google talks about software, computers, games and so on. And it's also the name of an online dictionary. --78.126.133.154 09:50, 22 April 2011 (UTC) (ANSWER: pronounced Sakhr, it means rocks, stones, boulders, or rock formations)

  2nd answer - صخر pronounced Sakhir - rocky (adjective), synonym: صَخْرِيّ (Sákhriy). Source: Sakhr dictionary. --Anatoli 09:20, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

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• ضاف

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• طيبي‎ (ṭayyibiy)
• طارق (ṭāriq) nm., banging (creating a noise)
• طبع (ṭabaʿa) to print (ISBN 0-8184-0430-2)

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• عباد (‘ibaad) npl., human beings
• عالمية (‘aalmiiya) nf., knowledge (esp. of the bookish sort)
• عجماء (‘ajmaa') nm., mute beast
• عرس - wedding (ceremony)
• عرية (‘urya) nf., nudity
• عري (‘urii) nm., nudity
• عمرة (ʕúmra) - 'umra , lesser Hajj
• عمري - ʕumriy (I am ... years old)
• عدنان‎
• عَظَاءَة (ʿaẓāʾa)

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• غفر (ghafara) vt., to forgive; [separate root] vt., to guard
• غافر
• غفار (ghaffar) adj., merciful
• غفور (ghafuur) adj., merciful
• اغتفر
• غلاية قهوة -- A native Arabic speaker told me this is the word for "ibrik" or "jezve" as used for making Turkish coffee

  غلاية (ġallāya) (boiler, kettle) + قهوة (qáhwa) (coffee). Together pronounced as "ġallāyat qáhwa". I think, a coffeemaker can be called غلاية قهوة. إبريق قهوة (ʾibrīq qáhwa) is a synonym. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить)} 13:07, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Hans Wehr dictionary doesn't have غلاية قهوة but غلاية شاي (ġallāyat šāy) - kettle, samovar. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить)} 13:10, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

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• فير
• فران (farraan) nm., baker
• فرديس (this looks like a misspelling of فراديس, which is the plural of الفردوس, Paradise) - Arabicized Persian پردیس.
• ڡأرعديس (ΠΑΡΆΔΕΙΣΟΣ Original writing of Paradise in the begin of real Islam before the Othman version of Koran أرعد, Ἠλύσιον πέδιον, ἐνηλύσιον مبارك Benedicted by برق : Lightning) (YOU'LL HAVE TO GIVE PROOF OF THIS. ڡ IS NOT EVEN AN ARABIC LETTER.)
• فإرعديس (ΠΑΡΆΔΕΙΣΟΣ) (THIS LOOKS LIKE IT'S FROM THE SAME SOURCE AS THE ABOVE. NEED EVIDENCE OR DELETE.)
• فسيلة (fasiila) nf., palm shoot
• فَصَمَ — [ R·I·C ] opiaterein — 12:53, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
• فونغراف - phonograph
• فليفلة
• فيه

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• قصر (qaṣura) vr., to be(come) short(er)
• قيدوم (qayduum) nm., prow
• كنف (kanafa) to enclose
• قيوم
• قحطان‎ (Qahtan or Qaḥṭān or Kahtan)
• قاوم
• قربان (qurbān)

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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)
• كريم (kariim) adj., noble
• كبيس (colloquial for "pickle"?) / (kabiis) nm., anything pickled --Strabismus (talk) 01:12, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
• كوردستان Kurdistan

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• لحن (laHn) nm., melody
• لذيذة - feminine (or plural inanimate) form of لذيذ (laḏīḏ) - "delicious". --Anatoli ^{(обсудить)} 04:21, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

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• مدجول - a type of date
  • or is ﻣﺠﻬﻮل more correct?
• مدق, 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
• مركبة - markaba, chariot
• مكتب (maktab) nm., school; office
• مستعلي‎ (Musta‘lī)
• مسند (musnad) nm., support (for the back or seat)
• مسيح (masiiH) nm., Messiah; adj., anointed
• مشتري muštari, مشتر muštarin (purchaser), مشترى muštaran (purchase), and please check the romanisation muštari at Appendix:List of Balkanisms
• معارج‎ (mi‘aarij) nm., place of ascent
• معراج (mi‘raaj) nm., ladder
• منتظر
• منتدية I have absolutely no idea of the meaning and pronunciation of this word — I found it on this website: منتديات العيادة السورية الطبية (totally safe according to WOT): That's the (much) less common way of saying muntada, "forum" (and is also "wrong" grammatically). It is pronounced muntadaya, and originated from the plural muntadayat.
• ماروم
• موصل
• مينا‎‎ (miinaa) nmf., harbor
• مايكل
• 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")
• مقاومة (pronounced "muqawama") n. "resistance"
• مباشرة (pronounced "mubashara") adv. "directly".
• مشارك n. "participant"
• مطالبة n. "claim"
• مكافة (Arabic, mukáfa, feminine past participle, not sure which root verb. Possibly bordered, desisted, refrained, but other possibilities.)
• موزارابيك (Mozarabic)

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• نضال (nidal) Added incorrectly as nidal, meaning struggle.
• نجد‎ (najada) vt., to help
• نسيم (nasîm): breeze, and
• نسيم البحر (nasîm al-bahr): sea breeze
• ناري (nāriyy): fiery?
• نشرة (nashra): bulletin, brochure
• نبت (nabata) to grow, sprout (from The Arabic Alphabet by Nicholas Awde and Putros Samano, ISBN 0-8184-0430-2)
• نهض (nahaḍa) to rise (ISBN 0-8184-0430-2)
• نبذ (nabadha) to banish (ISBN 0-8184-0430-2)
• نتش (natasha) to unplug (ISBN 0-8184-0430-2)

ه

• 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)
• هولندا (The Netherlands - مملكة هولندا, Holland)
• هولندي (Dutch, Hollandese)
• هلع (Helo)
• هيعون
• هكذا Pronounced "hakadha". Meaning "thus", "so"...
• هرمز Hormuz (e.g., Strait of Hormuz)

ﻭ

• ولي
• والي
• وفد
• وضوء w:en:Wudu
• وعى
• وين (wain)

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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)

• يلو
• يفي (imperfective of وفى, wafaa, to be perfect, integral, complete, unabridged)
• يلاو
• ينبع