IT is considered quite normal for languages to borrow words from other languages. When a language takes words from other languages, these “new arrivals” are usually called borrowings or loan words.

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Oxford University Press has announced the launch of a new Arabic-English dictionary which features more than 130,000 words and phrases. The print and digital publication of the Oxford Arabic ...