Arabic Rules Research Articles

Developing a System for Converting a Numeral Text into a Digit Number: Abacus Application

Abstract In this paper, we will present a novel and the first approach to transforming written Arabic numeral word format into a string of digits according to proposed Arabic numeral rules. In this work, we relied mainly on the Arabic stemmer to determine the digit number, where we proposed a set of stems for the main numbers. The proposed approach covers all problems associated with Arabic numeral texts, including different numeral word shapes and unordered sentences. That is, a textual number could be written in more than one format; moreover, we deal with Arabic accents. In addition, we propose to deal with simple spelling errors and using similarities to find the nearest correct word. The proposed approach covers all possible text numbers in the range of one to millions. Tests have been executed using a possible case from context numeral in the range above, and the experimental results have demonstrated that the proposed approach is promising in the sense that it provides an efficient and error-free transformation. Finally, we built an Android mobile-based application that uses the proposed approach to transform between three different formats: digits, numeral texts, and Abacus.

Qur’anic Words: An Analysis on Shihab’s Rules of Exegesis in Tafsir Al-Mishbah

Shihab is an Islamic scholar who has prolifically produced a comprehensive 30 chapters of Qur’anic exegesis entitled Tafsir Al-Mishbah. This book is perceived as the latest Qur’anic exegesis produced by Muslim scholar of the Archipelago. He stresses on the importance of understanding the Qur’an contextually, supported by a strong understanding of the language and not focusing only on the textual meaning. In relation to this, his work has used a lot of linguistics approaches as to obtain the actual verses exegeses. Therefore, this study seeks to analyse critically his linguistics exegesis, and the focus rests on the debate on Qur’anic words. To obtain an explicitness perspective, this study has adopted the library research and document analysis method by making language and reliable popular Qur’anic exegesis books as primary sources of reference. The outcome of this study finds that Shihab had applied five rules in relation to Qur’anic words, all of which have been approved by scholars and exegetes. In addition, this study also found that Shihab absolutely consistent in applying these rules, except in the first rule. By doing so, it was slightly crippled his exegetical work. Finally, this study suggests that it is not possible that a grammatical error occurs in the Qur’an. Indeed, the essence of the Arabic language rules is unparalleled with the structure of the Qur’an, but the arrangement rule was implemented after the Qur’an was revealed. If both cannot be made consistent with one another, then this is due to the limitation of method which is known as shādh. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4s1p454

An Arabic Natural Language Interface System for a Database of the Holy Quran

In the time being, the need for searching in the words, objects, subjects, and statistics of words and parts of the Holy Quran has grown rapidly concurrently with the grow of number of Moslems and the huge usage of smart mobiles, tablets and lab tops. Because, databases are used almost in all activities of our life, some DBs have been built to store information about words and surah of Quran. The need for accessing Quran DBs became very important and wide uses, which could be done through database applications or using SQL commands, directly from database site or indirectly by a special format through LAN or even through the WEB. Most of peoples are not experienced in SQL language, but they need to build SQL commands for their retrievals. The proposed system will translate their natural Arabic requests such as questions or imperative sentences into SQL commands to retrieve answers from a Quran DB. It will perform parsing and little morphological processes according to a sub set of Arabic context-free grammar rules to work as an interface layer between users and Database.

Language's Borrowings: The Role of the Borrowed and Arabized Words in Enriching Arabic Language

Borrowing is entering Arabic language. Researchers focus on the origin of the borrowed words and their meanings without analyzing the syntactic and semantic changes of these words. This paper focuses on Arabic language's borrowings from other languages. Moreover, it studies the meaning of 'arabization' and the role of arabized and borrowed words in enriching Arabic language, the difference between the arabized words and the borrowed (' dakheel ') ones by examining and analyzing samples for every type. Arabic words are derivatives from the base form, which is applied to wazen , three-letter, ' fa ', ' 'a , and ' la ', three-syllable and three-sound word. The words, which will be studied, are used among speakers of Arabic, and have equivalents in Arabic, besides they follow Arabic rules in a variety of methods, syntactically, morphologically and phonetically. In the process of arabization, these words show that a change happens by an addition of a letter, deletion or replacement of a letter, or by a change in the manner of articulation. Moreover, they exist in more than one phonetic form which permits Arabic language to adopt one of these forms and arabize it.

Kilka uwag o genezie islamu w Aryce Północnej

The first country conquered by Muslims in North Africa was Egypt. Arabic rules started there already in 642, only ten years after Muhammad’s death. North Africa underwent a strong processes of islamization as a result of the Arabic expansion in the Middle Ages. Arabs started to refer to these territories of North Africa as „Maghreb” – Arabic word for “West”. The expansion of the Islam caused irreversible changes of African continent in all social, cultural and political dimensions.

Bayan: an Arabic text database management system

Most existing databases lack features which allow for the convenient manipulation of text. It is even more difficult to use them if the text language is not based on the Roman alphabet. The Arabic language is a very good example of this case. Many projects have attempted to use conventional database systems for Arabic data manipulation (including text data), but because of Arabic's many differences with English, these projects have met with limited success. In the Bayan project, the approach has been different. Instead of simply trying to adopt an environment to Arabic, the properties of the Arabic language were the starting point and everything was designed to meet the needs of Arabic, thus avoiding the shortcomings of other projects. A text database management system was designed to overcome the shortcomings of conventional database management systems in manipulating text data. Bayan's data model is based on an object-oriented approach which helps the extensibility of the system for future use. In Bayan, we designed the database with the Arabic text properties in mind. We designed it to support the way Arabic words are derived, classified, and constructed. Furthermore, linguistic algorithms (for word generation and morphological decomposition of words) were designed, leading to a formalization of rules of Arabic language writing and sentence construction. A user interface was designed on top of this environment. A new representation of the Arabic characters was designed, a complete Arabic keyboard layout was created, and a window-based Arabic user interface was also designed.