Etymograph

English

abjad

Abjad comes from Arabic أَبْجَد ‘alphabet, abjad’.

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentأَبْجَدʔabjad‘alphabet, abjad’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2010abjad

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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  1. Arabicc. 500–presentأَبْجَدʔabjad‘alphabet, abjad’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2010abjad

Earliest quotation: 2010, Stephen Chrisomalis, Numerical Notation: A Comparative History: “As Islam spread eastward throughout the eighth century AD…”

The story

Linguistics sense coined by Peter T.

Every English word from Arabic أَبْجَد

Today it means

noun A writing system for Arabic, historically also employed as a numeral system, in which there is one glyph (symbol or letter) for each consonant but vowels are not specified.

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Etymograph / Arabic أَبْجَد / abjad

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