Loan Terms in Arabic

Overview

Arabic language, like any other live language, has its own ever-growing set of loanwords which remarkably seem to have an incredible vocabulary increase over the last three decades as a direct consequence of the vast information revolution empowered by the wide-pacing technology currently in progress. Kalmasoft is regularly recording those accepted terms and keeps them in a rich listing of foreign words loaned from many languages mainly English, French, Italian, but also and not surprisingly, Turkish and Farsi. The set is divided into two separate databases, the one shown here is for general terms that stand for abstract ideas. The other Loanwords reflects "objects", this done to facilitate the usage in such application like Semantic Web, Semantic Annotation, and as knowledge base for any other ontology related works.

Please note that the “Usage” column may not thoroughly reflect the morphological behavior of each term since some tend to be modal e.g. “etiquette” while others prove to be in accord with Arabic orthography e.g. "television" being fully adopted in the system following the inflectional and/or conjugational paradigm just like any other regular word. Elaborative work on such terms is not available - for the time - and not considered within the scope of this database.

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Last updated: 21/3/2024

Field Definitions

ID: Unique ID
Term: loan term
Arabic: term in Arabic
KATS: KATS version of term
IPA: phonetic transcription
Variants: other in-use Arabic orthographic variants
Origin: donor language or language of origin
Usage: A: adjective, N: Verbal Noun

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