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Arabic 101
Arabic Word of the Day
Shami and Levantine Dialect
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Afwan
English:
You're welcome
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The English Language Many of our English words have roots in the Arabic language, words such as admiral, traffic, jar, candy, magazine and sash.
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posted on: Nov 19, 2014
Ibn-Rushd was born in Cordoba in 1126, an Aristotelian philosopher, astronomer and court physician, he dominated European thought from the twelfth to the end of the sixteenth centuries.