Haafiz--the one who protects
The trilateral root ‘ha-fi-za’ in Arabic means to protect, preserve, guard or...
Kamaal--the State of Perfection
Ka-ma-la, the Arabic trilateral root for ‘perfection’. Most Hindi/Urdu speakers are familiar...
Four Strategies for Building your Vocabulary in a Foreign Language
The task of learning, memorising, and eventually using new words in a...
What's wrong with English spelling?
Although spoken English is quite easy to learn, a fact that certainly...
The morphological tripod - Arabic roots 101
This article is a sister article to the earlier 101 articles treating features...
Wolf and wolves and foot and feet
We all know that the plural of foot is not *foots but feet. This is, by...
Stars: seeds of the gods
English star, German Stern, Italian and Latin stella, Greek αστηρ (astēr) and Hindi तारा (tārā), all...
Words for king in Sanskrit, Greek and Old English
The common word for king is राजा (rājā) in Sanskrit, βασιλευς (basileus)...