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It's the Latinized version of the Arabic word al-jabr.

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  1. A plant of the genus Morinda, allied to the madder.
  2. An old form of all.
  3. The name is applied in India to several species of Morinda, especially to Morinda citrifolia and M. tinctoria, trees belonging to the madder family, which grow spontaneously and are also cultivated for the sake of the dye obtained from the bark of their roots and stem. The smallest roots yield the most valuable dye, the stem the most inferior. The al dye is gradually supplanting the more expensive red obtained from the Indian madder, or chaya root (Oldenlandia umbellata), with which the celebrated Madras handkerchiefs and turbans were formerly dyed. Morinda citrifolia, the principal al-tree, is widely spread throughout the East Indies, the west coast of Africa, and the islands of the Pacific Ocean, where its fruit is sometimes eaten by the natives. See nonu.

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  • It's the Latinized version of the Arabic word al-jabr. —  Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
  • "Wahhabi" ideology, embodied in the descendants of Abdul Wahhab, known as the al-Sheikh ( "the sheikh's folks") and a certain geopolitical caution. —  New Statesman
  • Sources have added that executives on the main Arabic al-Jazeera network are trying to exert more control over the English language outlet, which is mainly staffed by western journalists. —  Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami
  • Abu Mustafa al-Yazid, an Egyptian whom U.S. intelligence officials have identified as the al-Qaeda's third highest-ranking official, sat for an interview with Najeeb Ahmad, a reporter for Geo TV. —  The Jawa Report
  • This transferring the observation of a sacred month to a profane month, is what is truly meant by the Arabic word al Nasю, and is absolutely condemned, and declared to be an impious innovation, in a passage of the Korтn5 which Dr. Prideaux,6 misled by Golius,7 imagines to relate to the prolonging of the year, by adding an intercalary month thereto. —  The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
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  1. from Hindustani āl, a plant (see def.).
 

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