The seventh-century Arabic poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah is said to have been deeply in love with a woman named Layla. He wrote to her and about her constantly, so much so that after his death, he was ...

Glory and grandeur run through the Arabic word of this week. Kibriyaa goes beyond pride. It suggests majesty and commands ...

Arabic is a resource-poor language relative to other languages with a similar number of speakers. This situation negatively affects corpus-based linguistic studies in Arabic and, to a lesser extent, ...

Interestingly, the Bible sometimes uses a feminine form when referring to the Holy Spirit, especially in Hebrew.The Hebrew word for spirit, ruach, is grammatically feminine.The Old Testament uses ...