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Arabic in Cards

Arabic in the Languages of Muslim Peoples

One Arabic word, its forms in Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Malay, Swahili, Hausa and others, and what changed in it on the way.

11 cards
qibla qāḍī ḥisāb

Why these cards?

We chose words that belong to a particular field, such as law, number, medicine and schooling, rather than everyday words. Every form in every language has two independent sources, at least one of them a dictionary of that language. Anything with only one source is shown on the card's page, marked "single source", and is kept off the card.

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qibla
the direction of prayer, towards Mecca
mawsim
the time each year when pilgrims gather; a fair