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   𐪅𐪀𐪈 𐪑𐪁𐪉🇵🇸 (wahballat@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Nov-2022 23:07:41 JST 𐪅𐪀𐪈 𐪑𐪁𐪉🇵🇸

   I have been thinking about the #etymology of #Arab. There are many theories as to what it means including an exonym meaning westerners, because we were living to the west of #Assyrians.

   But lately I think there’s a possible etymology no one seem to have considered.

   In #Mehri, a language spoken in #Oman and #Yemen. There’s a cognate of Arab that means to speak. Considering that Arabs refer to non-Arabs as Ajam literally mute, it is a possibility that Arab means “person I can understand”.

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     Yaser ✅ (yaserius@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Nov-2022 23:25:04 JST Yaser ✅

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     @WahbAllat in Arabic أعرب also can mean to say something أعرب عن فرحه

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     𐪅𐪀𐪈 𐪑𐪁𐪉🇵🇸 (wahballat@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 00:16:17 JST 𐪅𐪀𐪈 𐪑𐪁𐪉🇵🇸

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     • التنينوكس

     @dragnucs غُرُب

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     التنينوكس (dragnucs@social.touha.me)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 00:16:19 JST التنينوكس

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     @WahbAllat
     ماهي الكلمة المهرية ؟