Category:English terms calqued from Arabic

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Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. axis of resistance
  2. Islamic State
  3. Marinid
  4. from the river to the sea
  5. double-edged sword
  6. Syrian Arab Army
  7. sound plural
  8. noun of place
  9. broken plural
  10. Bride of the Red Sea
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. Arab street
  2. solar letter
  3. lunar letter
  4. Sahidic
  5. Bohairic
  6. Syrian Arab Army
  7. United Arab Emirates
  8. oxeye
  9. Syrian Arab Republic
  10. Arab Republic of Egypt

English terms that were calqued from Arabic, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of Arabic terms.

To categorize a term into this category, use {{cal|en|ar|source_term}} (or {{clq|...}} or {{calque|...}}, using the same syntax), where source_term is the source-language term that the term in question was borrowed from.