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Shami and Levantine Dialect
Arabic:
Te-faddal (to m)
English:
Please/help yourself
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Arab Trivia
Alhazen Known as “Alhazen” by European scientists, Ibn al-Haytham (965-1040) developed Euclidean geometry and was highly regarded for his work in optics.
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posted on: Nov 19, 2014
The twenty-four-hour-day, seven-day-week, and a three-hundred-and-sixty-five-day year – – are important Arabic contributions