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. United Arab Emirates
  2. Holy Spirit
  3. double-edged sword
  4. Syrian Arab Republic
  5. oxeye
  6. Arab Republic of Egypt
  7. People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
  8. People of the Book
  9. Islamic State
  10. Kingdom of Morocco

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.