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Why does Arabic transliterate the Hebrew ץ as س and not ص?
From this Wiktionary entry:
word-final form of צ; final sadhe, tsadi, tzaddik
From the Wiktionary entry for sadhe:
Arabic: صَاد (ar) m (ṣād), ص (ar) (ṣ) (symbol)
Example of a hebrew word with that ...
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Why do many Arabic letters look exactly like other letters except for dots, yet have no similarity in sound?
Why do many Arabic letters look exactly like other letters except for dots, yet have no similarity in sound?
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How did خشاب become the Persian word for magazine?
In Iran magazine (in a gun) is called خشاب (kheshab). I tried to find a relation to another language but I failed.
The only thing I found is that خشب (khashb) means wood in Arabic.
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How and when was the name of Somalia written with س in Iran?
In Arab world Somalia is written with ص. They call it صومال.
But in Iran where people use so many Arabic words in a daily basis without misspelling them, write Somalia with س. They write it سومالی.
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