Cultural Exchange
ORANGE برتقال |
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fruit, originally from South and East Asia, known in Sanskrit as naranga, which became the Arabic naranj.
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ALCOHOL (الكُحُـــــــــول.) |
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an extraction process from a mineral, European chemists began to refer to anything involving extraction/distillation as alcohol.
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ALCHEMY and CHEMISTRY (الكيميـــــــــاء.) |
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put together
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ALGEBRA (الجبــر) |
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a mathematical discipline
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| ARTICHOKE |
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variety of a species of thistle cultivated as food.
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CANDY (from قندي) |
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“hard sweets made by boiling cane sugar”
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| COFFEE (قهوة) |
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for long snubbed by Europeans as the “wine of the infidels”—that is, many centuries before the age of Starbucks and instant coffee!
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COTTON (قُطْـــــــــن) |
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soft, fluffy staple fiber used for textiles
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MATTRESS (مطـــــــــــــــــــرح.) |
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large, usually rectangular pad where you can lie and sleep
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part 2
SOFA (الصُفــــــــة)< |
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cushioned item of furniture for seating multiple people |
raised, carpeted platform on which people sat.
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SUGAR (سكر) |
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Sanskrit (śarkarā), meaning "ground or candied sugar"
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| CIPHER (صِفـــــــــــــــــــــــــــر) |
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Arabic word for zero صفر (sifr) |
not easily understood, so used for encrypted code
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ELIXIR (الإكسيــــــــــــــر) |
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like a syrup
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SODA (صـــــــــودا.) |
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chemical compounds containing sodium
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ADMIRAL (أميــــــــر الرحلة) |
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commander of the fleet
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ARSENAL ( دار الصناعــــــــــــــــة ) |
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manufacturing house where weapons for the navy are made
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MAGAZINE ( مجلة) |
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store house
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ASSASSIN (حشَّــــــــــــــاشين”) |
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hitman, murderer
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Vocabulary
crusader = Kreuzzügler, Kreuzritter
crusade = Kreuzzug
crusade = religious war to free the Holy Land (= Jerusalem, Palestine)
Why - because pilgrims wanted to visit the place where Jesus had lived.
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