Arabic Flashcards
The Arabic word for “lawful” gave us this word meaning slaughtered according to Islamic law.
Halal
The initial sense of what word, originally derived from Arabic and most commonly used nowadays for a certain type of publication, was “storehouse”, and thus its modern literary usage (dating from the 1730s) is as a figurative storehouse of information?
Magazine
What is the term, from the Arabic for “beacon,” for the tall, slender tower (typically part of or adjacent to a mosque) with a balcony from which Muslims are summoned to prayer five times each day by a religious official known as a muezzin?
Minaret
Halal, a term from Arabic which translates to “lawful”, is applied to meats and other foods that conform to Islamic dietary laws. What is the contrasting term, meaning “forbidden”, that is used for foods such as pork that may not be consumed by Muslims per the Quran?
Haram
In 835 CE, the Persian polymath Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi wrote a work whose title in English is The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing, and whose title in its original Arabic introduced what word into English?
Algebra
