ARABIC

Thursday 18 August 2011

Sunday 7 August 2011

Arabic Numerals.

Have you ever seen these numbers before ?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Or even those ?

If I asked you where are the Arabic number ? you would probably say : "The second ones" because we already use them.

Ok, we use them, yet they weren't the original Arabic numbers.

They are Indian numbers. Arabs just took them in past.

Buy you might ask, How was the original Arabic numbers?

Here is the answer: these 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9.

Are you surprised ?! Yes, they were the original Arabic number which are use in may countries as English numbers.

In fact, they weren't in this style. If you wonder how they were, well .. they were like this :

Do you know the Latin numbers ? Which based on : How many stick = the number.

For Example II = two sticks = 2 , III = 3.

But you are wondering, what the original Arabic number based on? and why they look like that ?

It is basically based on the inner angles, just like that :

If you can notice that, every number reflects the number of angles it has.

In fact, if we just rotate some numbers of them, we'll got an Arabic sentence that says :"My goal is accounting".

As shown the following picture:

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals & I ^_^.

English words that came from Arabic language.

ORDER

Word in English = its origin in Arabic (عربي)

Algebra = Al-Jabr(الجبر)
-Al-Jabr is basically the famous science. (Who discoverd this science is an Arabic-Muslims man called Al-Khawarizmi )

Algorithm = Al-Khawarismia (الخوارزمية)
-Al-Khawarismia is an Arabic word that took from the same scientist name Al-Khawarismi. Which is a mathematics and computer science.

Al-Khawarizmi

EXAMPLE

5 REM Euclid's algorithm for greatest common divisor
   6 PRINT "Type two integers greater than 0"
   10 INPUT A,B
   20 IF B=0 THEN GOTO 80
   30 IF A > B THEN GOTO 60
   40 LET B=B-A
   50 GOTO 20
   60 LET A=A-B
   70 GOTO 20
   80 PRINT A
   90 END

A PAGE OF AL-KHAWARISMI'S BOOK

Chemistry = Al-Chemy / Al-Kimia'a / Al-Khimia'a (الكيمياء \ الخيمياء)
- It is also that science which talks about materials and matter "Jaber Ibn Hayian" is an Arabic-Muslim scientist who discover a lot if things in this science, and he learned on the hands of Ja'far Al-Sadiq.

15th-century European portrait of "Geber",

Codici Ashburnhamiani 1166,

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence

Alcohol = Al-Kohol (الكحول)
-Means the same thing in English (In chemistry is any organic compound). (Arabs discovered that)

Banana = Banan (بنان)
-Banan : finger. ((Banana called in Arabic "finger of banana" Or "بنان الموز"))

Lemon = Limoon (ليمون)
-Limoon is quite the same meaning and pronounce in English

Coffee = Qahwa (قهوة)
-Qahwa is the root of the English word "coffee", yet it is a little bit different in pronunciation but same.

Boka = Baka (باقة or باقة ورد)
-Means the same thing.

Guitar = Qithara (قيثارة)

- Means the same thing.

Sofa = Sofah (صوفا)
-Means the same thing.

Cotton = Qotton (قطن)
-Means the same thing in English.

Safari = Safar (سفر)
-Safar means traveling in Arabic.

Camera = Qomra (قمرة or القمرة المظلمة)
-Qomra means a dark room, which is the first time that people discover that they can make photos from a little hole in a dark room. (Arabs who discovered that, the scientist's name is "Ibn Al-Haytham" *Arabic-Muslims scientist)

Ibn Al-Haytham

Sources :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai-Iz9HjEQ0
Wikipedia :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%E1%B8%A5ammad_ibn_M%C5%ABs%C4%81_al-Khw%C4%81rizm%C4%AB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhazen

Why Arabic

280 million people who speak Arabic, plus more than 1 billion Muslims on the planet that know sentences that would be written in one or two pages at least.

Arabic is spoken in several countries as a first language.

More than 20 countries speak Arabic as a first language.

Member states of the Arab League

Algeria (Arabic: الجزائر‎ al-Ǧazāʾir)

Bahrain (Arabic: البحرين‎ al-Baḥrayn)

Comoros (Arabic: جزر القمر‎ Ǧuzur al-Qamar) (Comorian and French are the other two official languages)

Djibouti (Arabic: جيبوتي‎ Ǧībūtī )(French is the other official language)

Egypt (Arabic: مصر‎ Miṣr)

Iraq (Arabic: العراق‎ al-ʿIrāq) (Kurdish is the other official language (minority))

Jordan (Arabic: الأردن‎ al-ʾUrdun)

Kuwait (Arabic: الكويت‎ al-Kuwayt)

Lebanon (Arabic: لبنان‎ Lubnān)

Libya (Arabic: ليبيا‎ Lībyā)

Mauritania (Arabic: موريتانيا‎ Mūrītānyā)
Morocco (Arabic: المغرب‎ al-Maġrib)
Oman (Arabic: عمان‎ ʿUmān)
Palestinian Authority (Arabic: السلطة الفلسطينية‎ al-Sultah al-Filasṭīniyyah) (Full member of Arab League and recognized by the majority of the World's nation states, but not recognized by the U.N., Israel, or most Western states)
Qatar (Arabic: قطر‎ Qaṭar)
Saudi Arabia (Arabic: المملكة العربية السعودية‎ al-Mamlakah al-ʿArabiyyah as-Saʿūdiyyah)
Somalia (Arabic: الصومال‎ aṣ-Ṣūmāl)(Somali is the other official language)
Sudan (Arabic: السودان‎ as-Sūdān)(English is the other official language (minority))
Syria (Arabic: سوريا‎ Sūryā)
Tunisia (Arabic: تونس‎ Tūnis)
United Arab Emirates (Arabic: الإمارات العربيّة المتّحدة‎ al-ʾImārāt al-ʿArabiyyah al-Muttaḥidah)
Yemen (Arabic: اليمن‎ al-Yaman)