Talk:List of Christian terms in Arabic

message: The Arabic word for the Bible has not been listed. Marxolang 12:52, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Usually الكتاب المقدس , but that's just an ordinary phrase meaning "The holy book", rather than a special name.  Muslims would probably more often call it Tawrat (Old Testament) and Injeel (New Testament). AnonMoos 15:00, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Thanks AnonMoos! The Bible is also called Alkitab in Indonesian (without Kudus, though). Do you mind if your info be added to the list? I could've just copy and paste, but since it is originally from you.. Marxolang 17:19, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this should definitely be added. It may only be a general term, but if it's the one used to refer to the Bible, it's certainly relevant to the topic.--C.Logan 16:40, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bible

message: I was never able to find the exact correct spelling of this in Arabic script; maybe somebody else would step in? AnonMoos 02:52, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, added it to page... AnonMoos 02:32, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ˤĪdu l-Mawta

message: "عيد الموتى"
If you add vowels to it, it will be:
عِيدُ الموْتَى
Hope that helps.
--Lord Anubis 15:48, 21 October 2006 
:Thanks, added it to page... AnonMoos 02:32, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  RE: ˤĪdu l-Mawta 

message: Also, Qibti (قبطي) should actually be pronounced as " Qubti " . It depends on the arabic region and on the accent, but I believe in pure arabic, it should be " Qubti", as such: قُبْطيّ
--Lord Anubis 15:48, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know that we try to define "pure Arabic" on English Wikipedia.  I think that mostly the Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic is used as an arbiter (unless there's some good reason not to rely on it in a specific case).  It lists both forms, but Qibti is listed first... AnonMoos 02:27, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copt

message: Does anybody think that it's worth noting that the word "nuwayl" might be theoretically understood to mean "little gift" in classical Arabic (though I have no idea whether or not it's ever actually been used in that meaning)? AnonMoos 02:52, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Baba Nuwayl

message: I don't think Nuwayl can mean "Little Gift".
--Lord Anubis 16:02, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  RE: Baba Nuwayl 

message: in addition to الجمعة الحزينة, another term for "Good Friday" is: جمعة الآلام  (The Friday of Pain, literally). 
This also depends on what arabic region you are in. 
--Lord Anubis 15:50, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good Friday 

message: Hello. I wanted to add "lord have mercy" to this list, since one hears it constantly in the Eastern churches. I'm pretty sure it's transliterated as Ya rab irham, but I can't write Arabic to save my life, so I was hoping someone could help me out! :)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.208.120.38 (talk) 02:59, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe يا ربي ارحم ? AnonMoos (talk) 05:12, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lord have mercy! 

message: As far as I can tell, ar-Rum mainly means "Romans, Byzantines" (historically also probably Greeks or the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm), and it's رومي (plural أروام) which means "Greek Orthodox"... AnonMoos (talk) 16:24, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't add it, I just cleaned it up, but that's also my understanding. I have difficulty adding Arabic script on this computer so I figured someone else would catch and fix it. Why don't you just fix it, Rūm just means "region historically covered by Byzantium, esp. Anatolia". ناهد(dAnāhita)  18:23, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Rum

message: The "alternate spelling" is not actually an alternate spelling. "باسم الآب والابن والروح القدس" spells "bāsm al-Āb..." which is incorrect, it's a weird hybridisation of basmalah and the phrase "bāsm al-Āb...". -- 03:49, 1 September 2008 User:Ogress
:Sorry I didn't see the above comment before (the fact that it wasn't signed didn't help).  In any case bāsm is nonsense, because 1) long vowels don't appear before consonant clusters in Classical Arabic, and 2) normally, the initial alif of words like ism would be retained after the preposition b- (in fact, even the alif of the definite article is  retained after b-).  Omitting the alif is actually a special Qur'anic orthographic contraction.  Depending on whether Arab Christians are kind of associating themselves with Muslim linguistic usages or distancing themselves from Muslim linguistic usages, they could spell باسم الآب or بسم الاب -- and both spellings are used, from what I was able to tell from searching with Google... AnonMoos (talk) 09:16, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The Basmalah

message: I once saw a photo of a Palestinian Christian religious building with a Basmallah reading "Bismillah ir-Rauf ir-Raheem" (with the usual Islamic "Rahman" changed for "Rauf"). Does anybody have info about this being a form of Christian Basmallah used perhaps only in Palestine?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.247.85.103 (talk) 23:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christian Basmallah 

message: Is "Nasara" used only by Muslims? Does it come from the name of Nazareth?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.247.85.103 (talk) 23:43, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: نصارى is the plural of Nasrani... AnonMoos (talk) 08:54, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nasara? 

message: The transliteration for يَسُوعَ , 'Yasū' ',is either wrong or misleading. I know a Christian Arab, and discussed the term while reading the transliteration, and she says it's pronounced more like "yah-soo-ah" and not "yah-soo". I typed the Arabic text in Google Translate, and Google transliteratied it "yasue"
If it is transliteratied correctly, I suggest that Wikipedia change their method of transliterating Arabic.
-TheSpaceFace Let's Chat 18:05, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the usual Classical Arabic rules, the basic word would be pronounced as IPA [jasuːʕ] (where [ʕ] is a pharyngeal consonant).  Of course, this could be followed by a short final i'rab vowel, depending on phonological/grammatical/stylistic context.  I don't think that non-classical Arabic dialects have a place on this article, unless there's some clear connection to prevailing Christian usage... AnonMoos (talk) 17:52, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  يَسُوعَ