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Maimun (other)
Maymun, Maymoon, Maymoun (Arabic: ميمون ''maymūn'') is an Arabic male given name generally implies "showing signs of future success" and also means "blessed, favorable, bringing happiness, of good omen, prosperous, auspicious, promising, blissful". It may refer to: People * Maimonides, ʾAbū ʿImrān Mūsā bin Maymūn bin ʿUbaidallāh ʾal-Qurṭubī ʾal-ʾIsrāʾīlī (1135–1204), Spanish rabbi, physician, and philosopher * Maimun Najar (15th century), Spanish/Algerian rabbi ** Nathan Najar, Nathan (bin Maymūn) Najar (15th century), a rabbi at Constantine, Algeria * Al-A'sha, A'sha Maymūn Ibn Qays (c. 570 - 629), an Arabic Jahiliyyah poet * Amr ibn Maymun, Amr ibn Maymūn al-Awdi, one of the Ansar companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad Places * Maimun, Iran, a village in Yazd Province, Iran * Bani Maymun, a village in western central Yemen * Istana Maimun ("Maimun Palace or Maimoon Palace"), a well-known landmark at Medan, North Sumatra * Maimun Saleh Airport, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston, 2011. Having emerged in the 1st century, it is named after the Arabs, Arab people; the term "Arab" was initially used to describe those living in the Arabian Peninsula, as perceived by geographers from ancient Greece. Since the 7th century, Arabic has been characterized by diglossia, with an opposition between a standard Prestige (sociolinguistics), prestige language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as First language, mother tongues. Colloquial dialects vary significantly from MSA, impeding mutual intelligibility. MSA is only acquired through formal education and is not spoken natively. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
