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Arabic 101
Arabic Word of the Day
Shami and Levantine Dialect
Arabic:
Hakeem (m)
English:
Physician
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Translating In ancient Baghdad, the greatest translator was Hunayn Ibn-Ishaq, a physician who translated all of Galen’s medical works and most of Aristotle, Plato and Hippocrates.
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