Definitions

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  • noun Arabic name for the Middle East

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Examples

  • Palestinian dialect is quite distinctive; you are not likely to find Arabs from the mashriq who are able to distinguish aMoroccan dialect from a Tunisian dialect, but Arabs can tell a Palestinian dialect.

    Sunday, April 30, 2006 As'ad 2006

  • After the Brecent Bombay Blasts, I was so much disturbed that taking a lead from Sahir Saheb's: - khoon apnaa ho ya paraayaa ho nasl-e-aadam ka khoon hai aakhir jang mashriq meiN ho ke magHrib meiN amn-e-aalam ka khoon hai aakhir

    Kafila 2009

  • He wrote: khoon apnaa ho ya paraayaa ho nasl-e-aadam ka khoon hai aakhir jang mashriq meiN ho ke magHrib meiN amn-e-aalam ka khoon hai aakhir jang to khud hi ek mas_alaa hai jang kyaa mas_aloN ka hal degee aag aur khoon aaj bakhshegee bhookh aur ehtiyaaj kal degee

    Kafila 2009

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