Some rumors are too hazy to be believed. For years, claims have connected the root of the word "alcohol" to an Arabic term that purportedly means "body-eating spirit." Many of these claims miss the ...

You have zero interest in algebra, so you grab some alcohol — or maybe a coffee with extra sugar — sit on the sofa or mattress, eat an orange or some candy, and ...

Two seemingly unrelated words are making headlines this week: tariffs and ghibli. The first follows sweeping trade legislation announced by US President Donald Trump, while the second is the name of ...

A surprising number of common English food and beverage words have Arabic backgrounds. Spanish absorbed many Arabic words during the centuries that the Moors occupied the Iberian Peninsula, 711 to ...

Every language has its peculiarity, languages make up the entirety of any culture. 7 words and phrases in the Yoruba language with Hausa or Arabic It is also usually common to have some words in a ...

The brain's right hemisphere is not involved in the initial processes of reading in Arabic, due to the graphic complexity of Arabic script. Therefore reading acquisition in Arabic is much harder in ...

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