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. double-edged sword
  2. sun letter
  3. moon letter
  4. West Bank
  5. Arab street
  6. solar letter
  7. lunar letter
  8. Holy Spirit
  9. Syrian Arab Republic
  10. Sahidic

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.