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The Lute Oud Posted by aziza on Oct 29, 2012
The lute (العود) is a string musical instrument that is very important in Middle Eastern music. It has a distinctive shape. See pictures! Oud has developed over a long period of time. Some date it back to the times of Ancient Egypt, based on some images and artefacts of an instrument that looks…
Top 50+ English Words—of Arabic Origin! Posted by Hichem on Feb 21, 2012
Did you know that words like Adobe and Safari are actually Arabic? Of course, you already knew of the existence of so-called “loanwords” in English, meaning words which are originally French, German, Spanish, etc. But were you actually aware that several of them also come from ARABIC? IN SCIENCE AND MATH: ALCHEMY and CHEMISTRY (الكيميـــــــــاء.) ALCOHOL (الكُحُـــــــــول.) ALGEBRA…