NTC's Yemeni Arabic-English dictionary

NTC's Yemeni Arabic-English dictionary
Author: Hamdi A. Qafisheh
Publisher: Contemporary Books
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2000
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

Hamdi A. Qafisheh's authoritative dictionary of Yemeni Arabic focuses on contemporary usage and includes common phrases, proverbs and examples of whole sentences taken from common speech. Transliterations of Arabic script are also provided.

Ve-’Ed Ya‘aleh (Gen 2

Ve-’Ed Ya‘aleh (Gen 2
Author: Peter Machinist
Publisher: SBL Press
Total Pages: 740
Release: 2021-09-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0884144844

Sixty-six colleagues, friends, and former students of Edward L. Greenstein present essays honoring him upon his retirement. Throughout Greenstein's half-century career he demonstrated expertise in a host of areas astonishing in its breadth and depth, and each of the essays in these two volumes focuses on an area of particular interest to him. Volume 1 includes essays on ancient Near Eastern studies, Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic languages, and biblical law and narrative. Volume 2 includes essays on biblical wisdom and poetry, biblical reception and exegesis, and postmodern readings of the Bible.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXI

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXI
Author: Dilworth B. Parkinson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027248176

This volume contains a selection of reviewed and revised papers from the twenty-first Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, which was held on March 2–3, 2007, at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The papers in this volume deal with a variety of topics in Arabic linguistics with a notable number of them emphasizing pragmatic aspects. The papers here included place a high value on the presentation of authentic data and explore different approaches in their analysis.

The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors

The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors
Author: William C. Young
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2024-02-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004690379

In the Arab world, people belong to kinship groups (lineages and tribes). Many lineages are named after animals, birds, and plants. Why? This survey evaluates five old explanations – “totemism,” “emulation of predatory animals,” “ancestor eponymy,” “nicknaming,” and “Bedouin proximity to nature.” It suggests a new hypothesis: Bedouin tribes use animal names to obscure their internal cleavages. Such tribes wax and wane as they attract and lose allies and clients; they include “attached” elements as well as actual kin. To prevent outsiders from spotting “attached” groups, Bedouin tribes scatter non-human names across their segments, making it difficult to link any segment with a human ancestor. Young’s argument contributes to theories of tribal organization, Arab identity, onomastics, and Near Eastern kinship.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics
Author: Sami Boudelaa
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2006-02-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027285268

The papers in this volume are a selection from papers presented at the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held in Cambridge, UK, in 2002. They deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in varieties of Arabic.

Translator Self Training Arabic

Translator Self Training Arabic
Author: Morry Sofer
Publisher: Schreiber Publishing
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2002
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1887563741

Improve your Translation Skills in eight easy lessons, in areas such as news, Law, medicine, business and more

The Translator's Handbook

The Translator's Handbook
Author: Morry Sofer
Publisher: Schreiber Publishing
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2006
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0884003248

Since 1997, this translator's guide has been the worldwide leader in its field and has elicited high praise from some of the world's best translators. It has been fully updated in the 2006 edition.

The Global Translator's Handbook

The Global Translator's Handbook
Author: Morry Sofer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2013
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1589797590

A practical guide to translation as a profession, this book provides everything translators need to know, from digital equipment to translation techniques, dictionaries in over seventy languages, and sources of translation work. It is the premier sourcebook for all linguists, used by both beginners and veterans, and its predecessor, The Translator's Handbook, has been praised by some of the world's leading translators, such as Gregory Rabassa and Marina Orellana.

A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic-English)

A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic-English)
Author: Alexander Borg
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2004-10-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9047413970

Cypriot Arabic, an unwritten language and mother tongue of several hundred bilingual (Arabic/Greek) Maronites from Kormakiti (N.W. Cyprus), evolved from a medieval Arabic colloquial brought to the island by Christian Arab migrants (probably from Asia Minor and Syria). It represents the outcome of a unique linguistic and cultural synthesis drawing on Arabic, Aramaic, and Greek; its Arabic component also shows a hybrid areal profile combining Greater Syrian traits with formal features typical of the contemporary S.E.Anatolian-Mesopotamian dialectal continuum. A number of rare Aramaic substratal elements in Cypriot Arabic suggest a relatively early separation of its parent dialect from mainstream Arabic. This lexicon surveys about 2000 Cypriot Arabic terms against the background of extensive comparative material from the Arabic dialects, Old Arabic, and colloquial and literary varieties of Aramaic. Many Cypriot Arabic terms are here cited with illustrative examples and ethnographic commentary where relevant. Cypriot Arabic is an endangered language; the present glossary is the most comprehensive lexical record of this scientifically intriguing variety of peripheral Arabic. It is primarily intended for orientalists and linguists specializing in comparative Semitics and Arabic dialectology.

Herbal Medicine in Yemen

Herbal Medicine in Yemen
Author: Ingrid Hehmeyer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2012-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004221506

Traditional medicine in Yemen is largely plant-based. Fourteen scholars represent both humanities and natural sciences in studying herbal medicines and their multifaceted applications within traditional Yemeni society. Approaches are based on textual analysis, empirical research and laboratory experiment.