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Shami and Levantine Dialect
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Shook-run
English:
Thank you
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The Concept of Time The twenty-four-hour-day, seven-day-week, and a three-hundred-and-sixty-five-day year - - are important Arabic contributions
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posted on: Nov 19, 2014
The Arabic instrument known as the “oud” came from the Arabic word al-oud which became the “lute”–the forerunner to the Western guitar.