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Omniglot - the guide to languages, alphabets and other writing systems. No Arabic word for bluff? « previous post | next post » Those familiar with our history of "No word for X" posts will appreciate Haider Ala Hamoudi's essay "The Dangers of Pop Linguistics: Arab Bluffs and Arab Compromise", posted at Islamic Law in Our Times, 3/6/2012.

No Arabic word for bluff?

Some useful background is provided by Geoff Nunberg's Fresh Air commentary "Meetings of the minds", 5/29/2003, which discusses the original claim that Arabic has no word for compromise. Frequency lists/Turkish. Manisa Turkish - Learn Turkish free - online.