Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- All; wholly; completely.
- To; at; on; -- in OF. shortened to
a- . Seead- . - The Arabic definite article answering to the English the
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- prefix Variant of
ad- used before the letter L. - prefix no longer productive Alternative form of
all- .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But in Arabic, this set of relationships remains murky unless we put an al- not only in front of fortress, but also in front of all the words that describe it, those we want to include in the idea of this fortress.
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But in Arabic, this set of relationships remains murky unless we put an al- not only in front of fortress, but also in front of all the words that describe it, those we want to include in the idea of this fortress.
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So while the al- approach to nouns in Arabic strikes us as unwieldy for Global English, it could be used in specific regions, or in discussions with those regions.
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Without its al-, the noun is, by default, indefinite.
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So while the al- approach to nouns in Arabic strikes us as unwieldy for Global English, it could be used in specific regions, or in discussions with those regions.
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Instead, to convey the idea of the, Arabic puts al- immediately before the word.
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Without its al-, the noun is, by default, indefinite.
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Instead, to convey the idea of the, Arabic puts al- immediately before the word.
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True love has gone : Serbian President Boris Tadic visited Muammar al- Gaddafi twice in 2009.
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No wonder the American-born Anwar al- Awlaki headed to Yemen to recruit.
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