Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves

Re:Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from V... by microcolonel on Thursday October 12, 2017 @01:25AM (#15455859)

There's some suggestion that the Spanish interjection olé is also descended from Allah (or rather some conjugation of it).

More or less, each name for God in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions is related to a similar name in one or both other traditions. "Allah" is a modern standard Arabic transliteration of a word which translates quite simply to God. The only reason to translate it as "Allah" is to signify that the context is Islamic.

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Re:Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from V... by DavidAdams on Thursday October 12, 2017 @01:58AM (#15455957)

Spanish speaking people have an even more obvious loan word from Arabic they use pretty commonly: ojalá. It means, "hopefully," or literally, "God willing."

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Re:Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from V... by ominous on Thursday October 12, 2017 @04:52AM (#15456583)

The word "alphabeth" is also of greek origin.

But no one tries to pass the message of greek influence to the point of there being articles for that in hackernews.

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Re:Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from V... by phaemon on Thursday October 12, 2017 @09:26AM (#15457758)

I don't know what that means. Everyone knows that there is a massive Greek influence on Western culture. The only reason there might not be many HN articles on it is that it's so obvious.

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Re:Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from V... by Grustaf on Thursday October 12, 2017 @02:27PM (#15460081)

>The word "alphabeth" is also of greek origin.

Yes and no. It came through Greek (though to us via Latin) but of course the names for Alpha and Beta (and most other letters) are based on the Phoenician Aleph and Bet.

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