French philosopher and scientist Rene Descartes created the concept and the now popular term: “I think, therefore I am.” A ...

This week’s Arabic word of the week is one of the most famous names in the world.Mohammed is a name that is not only widely used by Arab speakers but due to its significance in Islam, has become ...

Named the ‘Historical Corpus of the Arabic Language’, this extensive project spans 17 centuries of linguistic development ...

Dozens of English words, from admiral to zero, have Arabic origins. WITHOUT al-gebra there would not be physics, without al-gorithms there wouldn’t be computers, and without al-kaline there ...

This is a man who has repeatedly deployed the word “Palestinian” as if it were a damning slur against his opponents. Although ...

More than a “brat summer” – it may even be a brat year. Collins Dictionary has named “brat” its word of the year for 2024, defining it as someone “characterized by a confident ...

The new ad also deletes a crucial word from a news article about immigration policy. The ad features the following on-screen text the ad attributes to a CBS News piece in September: “Harris vows ...

The name was suggested by Qatar and it has multiple derivations. Dana in Arabic means "the most perfectly sized, valuable and beautiful pearl", as per Arabic calligraphy names. This name is used ...

A new study suggests that our feline companions can even learn to associate the words we use for particular objects or images, and they pick this up faster than our own babies do. Cats can even learn ...

Bash is short for “basha”, a term used by the Turks for those of a high rank, while muhandis is an Arabic word that means engineer. Bash muhandis was initially used to address qualified engineers and ...

An old video of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ “last words” is going viral on social media after his arrest and allegations of sexual abuse. The resurfaced clip shows Combs sitting alongside Usher ...

But we have borrowed words from many other languages, some of which we may not suspect. Arabic is one of them. We usually say we “borrow” foreign words, or that certain words are “loan-words,” but ...